[Bug 1123710] Re: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

[Scott Ritchie]

Once I fix gnome-exe-thumbnailer, but not winetricks, apt has a similar
problem: it gets to the winetricks recommends, determines it wants
winetricks:i386, winetricks:i386 says it wants cabextract:i386, this
then conflicts with cabextract:amd64.  Apt then suggests removing
cabextract but not actually installing winetricks due to another
conflict, so the suggested removal of cabextract is unnecessary.

I'm beginning to think I need to make some automated tests for an
elaborate series of multi-arch edge cases.

** Changed in: gnome-exe-thumbnailer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

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Title:
  wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gnome-exe-thumbnailer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ttf-droid” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ttf-liberation” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ttf-umefont” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ttf-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “wine1.4” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “winetricks” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  If a user wants 32-bit only wine, a reasonable way to get it would be
  to install wine1.4:i386.  However, this is not possible on amd64.
  Currently apt spews this complaint:

   wine1.4:i386 : Depends: wine1.4-i386:i386 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu4)
                  Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer:i386 but it is not installable or
                              kde-runtime:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: ttf-droid:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-liberation:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-umefont:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-wqy-microhei:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: winetricks:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: xdg-utils:i386 but it is not installable

  gnome-exe-thumbnailer, xdg-utils, and the fonts are arch: all and
  should be marked multiarch:foreign to indicate that it is ok to
  install them for the nonnative wine1.4 (they are cross-arch shell
  scripts).  winetricks is currently arch i386 and amd64 and should
  probably be marked arch: all (especially for upcoming arm wine).

  apt will then freak out about conflicts and give up.  apt-get --no-
  install-recommends wine1.4:i386, however, will actually complete.  I'm
  not sure this is correct behavior for apt, as in principle it should
  be able to figure out that it can succeed with the command by omitting
  recommended packages.

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