[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#534237: Bug#534237: ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk are broken in unstable

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Terry Watt <tjwatt at umich.edu> writes:

> I actually think this is due to a conflict in lib32ncursesw5, as well
> as a few other "lib32" libraries, including lib32z1 and lib32nss-mdns,
> but not many others, such as lib32asound2, lib32stdc++6, or lib32gcc1.
> ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk haven't been updated in a long time and
> work fine in testing, while the dependencies in unstable do not
> install even when requested directly (they simultaneously depend on
> libc6-i386 and request its removal).  This may be related to the
> eglibc6 transition?
>
> Bug 534238 also certainly has the same root cause, and no 32-bit
> program that I have checked recently is currently installable on a
> 64-bit system when using Sid.

This is a known problem with the lib32 symlink to directory transition
and already solved in svn and pending upload.

Please stop worrying.

MfG
        Goswin