[Bug 2012408] Re: please sync steam-installer from Debian

[Simon McVittie]

The old steam binary package in src:steam was historically Architecture:
i386, because Steam for Linux was originally runnable on i386-only
systems, and only later gained amd64 dependencies (while also keeping
its i386 dependencies). steam:i386 has not *actually* been runnable on
i386-only systems since at least 2021 and probably earlier, so it was a
bug for it to be an i386 package (https://bugs.debian.org/992533).

The steam binary package in src:steam-launcher is a transitional package
to help with upgrades. I didn't think apt would be able to figure out
that it's OK to crossgrade from the old steam:i386 (<= 1:1.0.0.75-1),
from src:steam, to the new steam:i386 (>= 1:1.0.0.75+ds), from
src:steam-launcher? If it can't, then that would defeat the purpose of
having a transitional package.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #992533
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992533

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