Ia32-libs break up/clean up, bi-arch pulseaudio library packages, and what we need to do to get there.

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Luke,

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:55:36PM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> During the sprint a couple of weeks ago, Colin indicated to me that due to
> some ia32-libs clean up work that he was doing, bi-arch packages for the
> pulseaudio libraries would likely need to be made available for karmic.
> Now since Steve Langasek has indicated to me that multi-arch is likely
> to not make it for karmic,

Well, it's "in jeopardy".  I'm still hoping we might have something in time,
but yes, we should have a backup plan in place for this regression.

> I need to get to work on bi-arch pulseaudio libraries. However, in order
> to achieve this, there are a fair number of source packages that also need
> to have bi-arch libraries produced, so that bi-arch pulseaudio libraries
> can be built. Below is the list of source packages that need to be
> touched.

> dbus
> libsndfile
> tcp-wrappers
> libx11
> flac
> libogg
> libvorbis
> libxcb
> libxau
> libxdmcp
> glib2.0
> libselinux
> pcre3
> avahi

> I am certainly willing to help with this list, but if others in the
> community, or package maintaiers for Ubuntu could help me out with this,
> I would very much appreciate it. Once bi-arch libraries have been built
> from all of these source packages, I can move forward and get pulseaudio
> sorted.

This is a long and scary list to be adding so many new biarch packages to. 
Given that this is going to be a stopgap no matter what, does it make more
sense to just add alsa back into ia32-libs instead of building it separately
as a biarch package?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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