[Bug 46936] cannot upgrade to wine-devel 4.5~bionic ( libfaudio0 dependency missing)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46936

--- Comment #24 from Sveinar Søpler <cybermax at dexter.no> ---
(In reply to Sergio Callegari from comment #19)
> The fact that wine stops updating and cannot be installed fresh unless a
> couple of packages for an unofficial repos are installed first appears as a
> serious packaging issue to me.
> 
> The problem is worsened by the following facts:
> 
> - From the apt upgrade output it is not clear that the final dependency that
> is missing is libfaudio0
> 

Apt should probably have pointed out a dependency issue, but the "winehq-devel"
package does not depend directly on libfaudio0. "winehq-devel" package depends
on "winehq-devel-amd64" and "winehq-devel-i386". Dunno if "aptitude why
winehq-devel" would give more relevant info? Did not try.

> Furthermore notice that installing the libfaudio0 packages manually
> requirese intervention with apt --fix-broken install, which is not obvious.
> 

The "--fix-broken" issue was my fault. I am still working on this issue, and i
am truly sorry for the mess.

> As a matter of fact, I think that winehq should "copy over" and distribute
> all the debs that are missing for the various distributions on its own repo.
> Incidentally, if things were built on the ubuntu ppa (which is obviously
> impossible given the cross-distro nature of wine) this is what would be
> encouraged.
> 
> An alternative (not very elegant) would be to ship libfaudio0 directly
> inside the wine debs as a packaged-in library (e.g. this is what some
> non-free packages do).
> 
> In any case the current situation is poor and complaining about the fact
> that distros can generally accept new packages only during some development
> window won't likely change things with the distros.

The ideal situation would be that the winehq repo had the appropriate packages
and ppl would not need to think about it. I guess this is a discussion for
someone eventually :)

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