Re: Depend on a package from an other arch

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2015-08-12 09:26, Bertrand Marc wrote:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am trying to fix Debian bug #783875 [1]: playonlinux (which is arch
> independant) should depend on the 32 bits version of wine. Therefore I
> added a dependency on wine32|wine32-development, but it seems the
> package will not migrate to testing [2], because wine32 is not available
> on amd64.
> 
> If I understand correctly, I should instead add a dependency on
> wine32:any | wine32-development:any and ask the wine maintainer to move
> to multiarch:allowed. But the best source on this subject is an Ubuntu
> one [3]. I cannot find any reliable Debian source about this.
> 
> Could you confirm that I understand this correctly ? Or do you know any
> package with a dependency on a package from an other arch ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bertrand
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783875
> [2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/playonlinux.html
> [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec
> 

Hi Bertrand,

Neither solution will work.  This is an artefact of how the testing
migration code handles arch:all packages.

Please file a bug against release.debian.org requesting help with this.

Thanks,
~Niels