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Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!



Hello Andrei,

Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ dpkg-deb -I debs/skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb
>  Architecture: i386
>  Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libc6 (>= 2.7), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.8.0), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libx11-6, libxext6, libxss1, libxv1, libssl1.0.0

Previously, Skype offered this i386 package and an amd64 package that
was really the same but with Architecture:amd64 and a dependency on
ia32-libs*. 

> As far as I can tell this is a plain i386 packages. Besides (haven't 
> read the multiarch specification), I don't think applications need any 
> conversion. One just needs to activate the proper architecture(s) and 
> then let the package managers do their job.

Exactly. And Skype stopped putting out fake amd64 packages and
decided to use multi-arch to support the amd64 users, the result of
which is the above ‘multi-arch’ package.

This doesn’t mean that the package is co-installable with itself or
something like that.

Best,

Claudius
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