Debian Bug report logs - #857003
ncurses: Build x32 packages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tiago Stürmer Daitx <tiago.daitx@canonical.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ncurses: Build x32 packages

Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:17:53 -0300

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Package: ncurses
Version: 6.0+20161126-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider applying the attached patch to add x32 packages to
ncurses. This patch has been a part of Ubuntu since late 2012 [1].

The original patch [2] has outdated symbols.

Many thanks,
Tiago Daitx

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncurses/5.9-10ubuntu2
[2]
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/123000501/ncurses_5.9-10ubuntu1_5.9-10ubuntu2.diff.gz

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Message #10 received at 857003@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

To: 857003@bugs.debian.org, Tiago Stürmer Daitx <tiago.daitx@canonical.com>

Subject: Re: #857003: ncurses: Build x32 packages

Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 03:30:57 +0100

> Please consider applying the attached patch to add x32 packages to
> ncurses. This patch has been a part of Ubuntu since late 2012 [1].

ncurses work fine on x32, natively and/or via multiarch.  Is there a real
reason to add multi_lib_ packages?

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Message #15 received at 857003@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tiago Daitx <tiago.daitx@canonical.com>

To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

Cc: 857003@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: #857003: ncurses: Build x32 packages

Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 23:38:28 -0300

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>> Please consider applying the attached patch to add x32 packages to
>> ncurses. This patch has been a part of Ubuntu since late 2012 [1].
>
> ncurses work fine on x32, natively and/or via multiarch.  Is there a real
> reason to add multi_lib_ packages?

Sorry, I forgot to add an extra comment about this particular patch.

I'm simply trying to reduce the diff between Ubuntu and Debian and
these patches have been carried on for a long while and these extra
pieces cause constant merge failures on the Ubuntu side.

In the case of x32 I'm really not sure if the patches are still
required, they have been added long ago. I'm actually interested in
your point of view as a maintainer - and this is the part I forgot to
ask you about: do you believe the x32 patches add any value to the
package nowadays? They seem to be no longer required.

Thanks!

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Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Software Engineer
tiago.daitx@canonical.com

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Message #20 received at 857003@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

To: 857003@bugs.debian.org, 848163@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ncurses: Build x32 packages

Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:07:54 +0100

> ncurses work fine on x32, natively and/or via multiarch.  Is there a real
> reason to add multi_lib_ packages?

only in unstable. There are no corresponding x32 packages for testing. Until
there is such support, these packages make sense, and removal of the other
multilib packages seems to be a bit premature.

The opinion of the dpkg maintainer doesn't make these packages unsupportable.

Matthias

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