Re: Specifying ia32-libs in control when on a 64 bit Debian/Ubuntu?

[Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org>]

Unfortunately this is a package of a package that does not use deb done by someone else so I have to do the thinking for it. If ia32-libs is not present on a 64 bit system the install simply fails with an unrelated error message. I would rather not have two separate packages for i386 and amd64 if I can do the dependencies with logic only. -- IV

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> wrote:

Ignacio Valdes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a deb package that requires ia32-libs to run on a 64-bit
> Debian/Ubuntu, otherwise it works without it on i386. I have tried in
> the control file:
>
> Depends: ia32-libs [amd64]
>
> But that doesn't seem valid. How does one specify ia32-libs should be
> a dependency when on 64 bit?
>

Shouldn't it be put automatically on amd64 arch by ${shlibs:Depends}?

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