Re: Adobre reader with multi-arch support

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: Adobre reader with multi-arch support
Brad Rogers <brad@???> writes:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:39:35 +0200
> Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote:
>
> Hello Christian,
>
>>I uploaded Adobre Reader 9.5.1-dmo6 to unstable with multi-arch
>>support. Now you can install acroread i386 packages under an amd64.
>
> I'm slightly confused by talk of multi-arch, but to get acroread on
> amd64, this now required, yes? I ask because doing that means bringing


Yes.

> in approx 45MB of other stuff, too. Plus, acroread is marked as
> local/obsolete in 'testing' now. It also means (it seems to me) running
> 32 bit software on a 64 bit OS. Something I'm rather keen to avoid if
> at all possible.


If you go to multi-arch you will be able to remove all ia32
packages. The size of these ia32 packages should be the same than the
new i386 packages.

ia32-libs size is already 33MB.

Christian