[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#705088: amd64: due to missing lib32asound2-plugins:i386, i386 applications output is broken on pulseaudio-enabled system.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* lct <lct at mail.ru> [2013-04-11 02:45 +0400]:

> Hello! Please reopen and don't close the bug until resolved, please.
> 
> > You can have installed both: i386 libs and amd64 libs. It won't
> > migrate. It only installs i386 versions needed for your wine apps.
> This is the problem. On my system, it REMOVES amd64 pulseaudio, codec libs and audio/video applications.
> The should-be situation is, ofc, install i386 versions PARALLEL. That wouldn't be problematic, but its not happening.
> 
> > 
> > > The easiest fix so far, would be to seperate
> > > architecture-indepedent plugins from dependent.
> > 
> > No. libasound2-plugins are multiarch.
> This has nothing to do with being multiarch.
> The libasound2-plugins package contains:
> a) codecs
> b) plugin to pulse audio
> I asked to seperate pulseaudio plugin into seperate package.
> This is due to pulseaudio being very often installed on GTK-based desktop systems.
> If its 64-bit configuration and user runs any 32bit application, he explicitly needs only 32bit pulseaudio module from the whole.
> 
>  
> > > That is - to move
> > > pulse modules OUT of "lib32asound2-plugins", because its they have
> > > no further dependencies and having i386 applications call amd64
> > > audio (pulseaudio) - is something rather much more common, than
> > > having 32bit versions of audiocodecs installed on amd64, instead
> > > of amd64 versions.
> > 
> > Well, at this point you have to rely on Debian's multiarch system
> > which would be 34 MB additional used diskspace on one of my
> > systems. We won't build individual packages for special applications
> > like you want. You have to accept both, amd64 _and_ i386, versions,
> > though.
> This is NOT happening by me and thats why I fired the bug.
> Can you please provide your "--dry-run" log, when you try to install libasound2-plugins:i386 on your 64bit system(with pulseaudio present).
> If you look up my first post, you clearly see that APT is going to "replace with" instead of "add".

Please show us the output of:
apt-show-versions | grep experimental


Elimar
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