Depend on a package from an other arch

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Bertrand,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Bertrand Marc <beberking at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello team,
>
> I am trying to fix Debian bug #783875 [1]: playonlinux (which is arch
> independant) should depend on the 32 bits version of wine. Therefore I
> added a dependency on wine32|wine32-development, but it seems the
> package will not migrate to testing [2], because wine32 is not available
> on amd64.
>
> If I understand correctly, I should instead add a dependency on
> wine32:any | wine32-development:any and ask the wine maintainer to move
> to multiarch:allowed. But the best source on this subject is an Ubuntu
> one [3]. I cannot find any reliable Debian source about this.
>
> Could you confirm that I understand this correctly ? Or do you know any
> package with a dependency on a package from an other arch ?

I'm not entirely sure which multiarch control fields/syntax allow for
an arch:all package to depend on a package from a specific arch, and
to be honest I don't really understand the difference between MA:
foreign and MA: allowed. Regardless, I would suggest that you ask this
question on debian-mentors instead, in order to reach a wider
audience.

Regards,
Vincent