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Author Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)
Faidon Liambotis

2006-10-30, 7:31 pm

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, applications with close ties to the kernel are likely to be a
> problem. Last time I checked USB printers didn't work either. It's
> possible that it'll be a supportable configuration in the future, but we
> may well have flying cars by then.

No flying cars needed -- at least for the iptables/netfilter part.
2.6.17 and newer (64-bit) kernels[1] work fine with 32-bit iptables.
This is not a problem for etch -- sarge OTOH had that problem and yet we
shipped 64-bit kernels.

1:
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kern...334f2c0f560be13


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