Archive skew and multiarch packages

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sun Feb 26 06:42:39 UTC 2012


On 02/25/2012 08:41 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> I'm tempted to just break lmms' build and revert the change, going with
> a hard dependency on wine1.4-i386, but it feels like this sort of issue
> is going to come up again.  There are other reasons to do this - for
> example 64-bit only Wine has no real way of detecting a 32-bit
> application and prompting the user to install the proper package.  If a
> true needs-64-bit-wine to build application creeps its way into Precise
> post release, then I can always issue an SRU (which are immune to
> archive skew).

Update: it seems lmms wasn't made to understand 64-bit wine anyway, and
was just ignoring it during build on amd64.  So this change seems
relatively harmless for now, at least until we see genuine 64-bit wine
dependencies.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie



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