Big ugly build changes might be needed for Debian/Ubuntu

Ove Kåven ovek at arcticnet.no
Sun May 22 18:05:07 CDT 2011


Den 22. mai 2011 21:48, skrev Scott Ritchie:
> 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.

Yes, that was what I was thinking of doing if I had to. But it's really
not very clean...



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