[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#630363: Bug#630363: ia32-libs: Request for coordinated inclusion of libv4l(-dev)

[Gregor Jasny]

Hello,

On 6/13/11 9:31 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Mon, June 13, 2011 14:08, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>> I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils. Currently I'm building the 32bit version
>> of libv4l(-dev) within the v4l-utils package myself. But with an added
>> libjpeg dependency and the upcoming multiarch support things get
>> complicated.
>>
>> Therefore I'm asking to include libv4l(-dev) into ia32-libs(-dev) and
>> add the proper conflicts and provides lines there. If this has happened
>> I'll stop building these 32bit versions myself.
>
> One of the goals of multiarch implementation is that ia32-libs is
> eventually removed. I doubt that adding your lib to ia32-libs is therefore
> the right way forward, or is it?

I've uploaded v4l-utils 0.8.5-1 with multiarch support. To test it the 
libjpeg package needs support multiarch, too. But even with a working 
multiarch package chain I cannot stop building the 32bit packages on 
amd64 because ia32-libs(-dev) depends on them.

Is there a target date when ia32-libs will be removed? If there is no 
such date, or the date is in the distant future, could you please add 
libv4l to ia32-libs?

Build-depending on ia32-libs-dev also causes troubles on Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/808064

Thanks,
Gregor