[arch-multilib] Permission to move package into multilib

[Brad Fanella]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Brad Fanella <bradfanella at archlinux.us>
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have a package (bin32-chuck) that needs to me moved to multilib, as the
> developer currently has no native source for x86_64. I hope this is the
> correct place to ask, but could I have "permission" (for my user) to submit
> that package to multilib?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
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> 3 votes? Seems obscure.
>
> On the other hand, it adds no dependencies and isn't very large.
>
> In any case, it would need to be properly compiled using gcc-multilib.
> The PKGBUILD on AUR does not do that and uses the old, broken scheme
> of repackaging i686 packages.
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Chuck is in [community]. The developers upstream were having problems with
x86_64, so only i686 is available for compilation.

See:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20881

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut at gmail.com> wrote:

> in addition i would prefer adding proper support for x86_64 to the actual
> chuck PKGBUILD instead using bin32-chuck name.


I could do that if you like. Would that be the better option in this
situation?
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