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glib2.0 package

  1. Bug #950967
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 950967

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Wookey (wookey) wrote : Re: [Bug 950967] Re: glib2.0:armel uninstallable if the code on systems that don't support executing armel code

+++ Steve Langasek [2012-03-09 17:32 -0000]:
> It can be installed on lots of things that aren't the native
> architecture, the only requirement is that you're able to run the code -
> which is straightforward to accomplish using qemu-user-static, isn't it?

This is true, but qemu support for the HOST arch of build-deps means
we can't cross build anything build-depending on this package for any
arch which doesn't have qemu support. The most pertinent current
example is aarch64 (arm64), for which everything currently needs to be
cross-built because there is no real hardware as well as no qemu
support :-)

It's important that simple M-A:same library packages should install
without qemu support unless it is absolutely unavoidable.

Wookey
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