Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies
On 2014-12-29 22:45 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> Le 29/12/2014 22:31, Sven Joachim a écrit :
>> On 2014-12-29 21:35 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
>>
>>> On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm |
>>> x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which
>>> provides x-terminal-emulator, but both apt and aptitude don't care and
>>> want to install xterm along with steam.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't apt be happy with mate-terminal:amd64 and install steam
>>> without pulling xterm in ?
>>
>> No, because (unlike xterm) mate-terminal is not marked as
>> "Multi-Arch: foreign" and thus cannot fulfill dependencies of
>> packages from a different architecture[1].
> Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. So if I understand
> correctly, the bug relies in mate-terminal's packaging ?
Yes, mate-terminal could probably safely be marked as
"Multi-Arch: foreign". Feel free to file a bug for that.
> Is there a way
> to check a control file's Multi-Arch field without downloading the
> source package ? apt-cache show doesn't display it.
If the Multi-Arch field is present, apt-cache displays it.
Cheers,
Sven
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