Including Mono within a Wine package - should Wine expect this?

[Stephan Hermann]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:52:49 -0700
Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:

> Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > Debian's ia32-libs package isn't an example of a whole lot. It grabs
> > compiled binaries from the official Debian archive, and nowhere
> > else. It isn't built on a 32-bit system. If ia32-libs had contained
> > binaries that could not be built 100% automatically using Debian's
> > official archive (and only the official archive), it probably
> > wouldn't have gotten into Debian. Besides, ia32-libs is not meant
> > to be a long-lived package, it'll go away eventually.
> > 
> 
> We've been saying that for 3 years now, and we've only become MORE
> dependent on ia32-libs in the process.  The chief culprit, of course,
> is Wine, and Wine's need to run 32 bit applications isn't going away
> soon.
> 
> Really, what Debian (and Ubuntu) need is to replace the contents of
> the ia32-libs package with proper 32 versions of package (sorta like
> how lib32asound and lib32z1 are now).  Fixing that, however, is a bit
> beyond the scope of the wine-devel list ;)

The real problem with multi-arch libs is, that it's hard to maintain
inside debian packages at all...not that it's difficult to compile on
amd64 with -m32 , but regarding the different ways of debian/rules
writing with all different maintainer ways to write Makefiles for
accomplishing this tasks is the most difficult thing.

When there are people interested in going a hard way of fixing todays
situation in debian/ubuntu and other distris, please let's do it
, sane and with a plan.

Regards,
\sh