32-bit Firefox (Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have towait?)

[Kilz _]

>From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>
>To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: 32-bit Firefox (Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have 
>towait?)
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:59:04 +0200
>
>Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:59:46PM -0400, Saad Shakhshir wrote:
> >> Kilz, I don't think there is a disagreement here on whether or not 
>Ubuntu
> >> should have improved 64-bit support.  It is simply a question of 
>priorities
> >> and limited resources.  As Matt and Mark have said, Canonical is not 
>going
> >> to contribute additional resources to this right now.
> >
> > What Mark and I said on that subject was that we would not be 
>implementing
> > multiarch.  I'm quite open to other proposals for improving the 
>usefulness
> > of the amd64 port.
> >
> >> On the other hand, Ubuntu welcomes and in fact embraces contributions 
>made
> >> from the community.  Matt made it explicit that instead of maintaining 
>your
> >> own repository for the packages you have created, post them to be 
>uploaded
> >> to the official Ubuntu repositories.
> >
> > This would be a good start.  There are at least two ways to integrate 
>this,
> > either as a duplicated source package (in universe) or an additional 
>binary
> > package built by the existing firefox source package.
> >
> > The latter would be preferable, as it avoids duplicating the source and
> > automatically stays up to date as the package changes.  The bi-arch 
>support
> > in our compiler should make it possible to build both 64-bit and 32-bit
> > binaries during the same build, if the necessary development packages 
>are
> > arranged.
>
>It should be possible, but would require a huge amount of package be
>built for 32bit support; in general, that's not a difficult, but just
>time consuming task. If you want to go this way, maybe look at the
>existing zlib, ncurses5 and bzip2 packages.
>
>The alternative to build an ia32-firefox packages seems to be odd now,
>that we seem to be able to drop the ia32 packages from main having an
>native OpenOffice.org build on amd64.
>
>    Matthias
>
>
>
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Just a question. Are you saying that it was planned that ia32 packages were 
not going to be available on 64 bit edgy? Because if that's the case its a 
huge blow to 64bit users. IMHO one of the reasons 64bit use is growing is 
because users can force in a few 32bit apps that they may need with Dapper. 
Without those packages that becomes harder.

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