Big ugly build changes might be needed for Debian/Ubuntu

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sun May 22 14:48:07 CDT 2011


On 05/22/2011 03:53 AM, Ove Kåven wrote:
> Den 21. mai 2011 19:38, skrev Scott Ritchie:
>> Well now we can just Depends: wine:i386 or similar, I think.
> 
> Last time I asked, they said the first multiarch implementation will not
> support that. The implementation cost of that would be very high (among
> other things, it might violate the current architecture
> self-containment), and the number of packages needing it is too small.
> 

Looking at the spec, it seems like Depends: wine:i386 isn't allowed,
however we can create a unique package name that only exists on i386 (eg
wine32), declare it Multiarch: foreign, and then have wine depend on wine32.



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