is anyone ever going to fix this major bug?

[Brendan Miller]

Ah, Ok. I haven't updated any of my systems to 9.10, so I didn't
realize that 32 bit compatibility had been removed... Given that, I
probably just won't update since it would break adobe air and all my
third party stuff...

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:46 AM, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:30 -0800, Brendan Miller wrote:
>>
>>> This bug more or less makes apt-get unusable on 64 bit systems and has
>>> been in for a long time now:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/402833
>>>
>>
>> Is this still a problem in Karmic?  I don't have that file on my system,
>> and a search of packages available doesn't give any package named
>> "ia32-libs-tools". It came to Ubuntu Jaunty (Universe) via Debian unstable.   It was also -- and consequently -- dropped from Ubuntu.
>>
> This package has been dropped from Debian -- completely, including
> removing the source packages. Debian considered (right or wrong, it is
> not the point here) the approach kludgy/unmaintainable. Additionally,
> the Debian maintainer orphaned the package. See [1] for the thread in
> Debian. The consideration is that the 'multiarch' package will
> (eventually) replace it.
>> Not saying it shouldn't be fixed in Jaunty, I'm just wondering if
>> there's an issue in Karmic as well--if so I think it must be different
>> (different package names, etc.?) than the Jaunty issue.
>>
>>
>>
> As already stated in this thread, given that the package was removed
> (and orphaned), it will need a volunteer willing to work on it for
> Ubuntu -- for Jaunty only.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ..C..
>
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