Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:43:56AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The problem to be solved is that ISVs provide binaries for Linux i386 > and our users want to run them on amd64. LSB, x32 and ARM are > completely irrelevant - the important thing is to make it easy to > install whatever libraries th

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:35:43PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:02PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > You installed a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system. That will only > > work if you also install the 32-bit supporting libraries, including the > > dynamic linker. Th

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:02PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > You installed a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system. That will only > work if you also install the 32-bit supporting libraries, including the > dynamic linker. This is not a bug in Debian. > > And no, installing 32-bit libraries by

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:26:46AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> Debian clearly says: "File does not exist", while in fact it DOES EXIST. > >>> This is a 100% proof of Debian bug. > > > I guess it is bash telling you that. > > >> That's the error message that you get when the dynamic loader fo

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:26:46AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That's the error message that you get when the dynamic loader for a > >> binary doesn't exist. I think that's been the case for as long as > >> Linux has existed. > > That's already reported as bug #609882. > I think that's askin

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Timo Weingärtner writes: > Hallo Russ Allbery, >> I think that's asking quite a lot of bash. Wouldn't it have to open >> the binary and parse the ELF headers, extracting the INTERP header, in >> order to verify that? Does it really make sense to encode >> understanding of ELF binary layout form

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hallo Russ Allbery, 2013-01-03 um 19:26:46 schriebst Du: > Timo Weingärtner writes: > > 2013-01-03 um 18:32:28 schrieb Russ Allbery: > >> Alexey Eromenko writes: > >>> User error? Huh ? > >>> > >>> No ! This is a Debian Bug ! > >>> Debian clearly says: "File does not exist", while in fact it DO

Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Timo Weingärtner writes: > 2013-01-03 um 18:32:28 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> Alexey Eromenko writes: >>> User error? Huh ? >>> No ! This is a Debian Bug ! >>> Debian clearly says: "File does not exist", while in fact it DOES EXIST. >>> This is a 100% proof of Debian bug. > I guess it is bash tel

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2013-01-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 697270 -1 Bug #697270 {Done: Holger Levsen } [general] PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64 Bug 697270 cloned as bug 697299 > retitle -1 misleading error message when ELF interpreter does not exist Bug #697299 {Done: Holger Levsen } [g

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Gergelzzzzzzzzzz Nagy
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi Gergely, > > if you take the effort to reassign to general, why dont you lower the > severity > as well? > > And, if you explain how this is a user error, why dont you close it straight > away? Because I haven't slept this year yet, and I forgot to change the Cc: to

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Gergelzz :-) On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013, Gergelzz Nagy wrote: > Because I haven't slept this year yet, and I forgot to change the Cc: to > -done@, and there's been about 5 minutes between the Control: header and > the rest of my mail, during which I completely forgot about th

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Gergely, if you take the effort to reassign to general, why dont you lower the severity as well? And, if you explain how this is a user error, why dont you close it straight away? cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Processed: Re: Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 general Bug #697270 [kernel-image] PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64 Warning: Unknown package 'kernel-image' Bug reassigned from package 'kernel-image' to 'general'. No longer marked as found in versions 3.2.0. Ignoring request to alter fixed vers