ia32-libs

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Pitti,

hope you have had a great time over the festive season. Sadly, the British
government and IT projects that work seem mutually exclusive. I did try the
multi-arch approach to solve the issue of running said government's portal.
I'm not sure how much input Canonical has on the push for use of linux /
F/oss within the government departments. It was, as is usual for politics,
announced with much sound bites, but... as usual we have seen very little.
The case of H.M. Revenues being one. It cannot work with the 'proper'
libraries. In an ideal world, some one would get a kick up the backside to
do the work - but, until then; we have to use what is given.

Regards,

Phill.


On 4 January 2014 17:49, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hello Phill,
>
> Phill Whiteside [2013-12-29 18:29 +0000]:
> > and then we get the plug pulled for 32bit library?....
>
> ia32-libs has always been a royal pain, gaping security hole (because
> it never really received security updates) and a hack. It was dropped
> in favor of proper "multi-arch" [1] so that you can install the real
> i386 binary packages on an amd64 machine.
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch
>
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>



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