On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: > Hello, > > I have a non-free package that is distributable but comes precompiled > for i386. Squeeze (and previous) released an amd64 package that > depended on ia32-libs. For wheezy we've been able to use multiarched > libraries to drop the dependency. Is there a mechanism that will make > the upgrade to wheezy work for the package? Right now dpkg uninstalls > the package (because it sees the data package, which is "all" but > can't find the corresponding binary package in amd64), users are > confused, find a bug report on the BTS or the changelog on a debian > site telling them to enable i386 in dpkg, then they install the :i386 > package and it works. > > This may just be a non-free issue people have to deal with, I just > wanted to see if there was a better way or plan in place to handle > this. skype for Ubuntu Precise (http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/s/skype/) depends on skype-bin which is i386-only. -- WBR, wRAR
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