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

[Scott Ritchie]

I agree with the sentiment about apt, however I thought it was the
current case that if a recommended (same-arch) package isn't available
in the archive, it does get simply ignored.

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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:
  Fix Released
Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
  Fix Released

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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