Bug#497087: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#497087: libnspr4-0d: Create the lib32nspr4-0d and lib32nspr4-dev packages for the amd64 architecture

Goswin von Brederlow goswin-v-b at web.de
Mon Sep 1 07:24:06 UTC 2008


Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:35:44PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
>> El ds 30 de 08 de 2008 a les 20:31 +0200, en/na Mike Hommey va escriure:
>> > I guess what you really need is a ia32libs-something package to include
>> > nspr and nss.
>> 
>> Some bits of information:
>>       * Multiarch support supersedes any current solution (lib32* and
>>         ia32-libs).
>>       * Adding files to ia32-libs is easier.

Except it is frozen and I assume this is ment to be in lenny. Bad timing.

>>       * For some reason, libnspr4-0d already includes the .so symlinks.
>
> This is actually necessary, because applications not built on debian are
> linked to libnspr4.so. But is that a problem ?
>
> Mike

It is a policy violation. It prevents library updates to work
smoothly. But keeping non debian compiled binaries working might
override that concern.

MfG
        Goswin





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