Bug#811039: extremetuxracer:i386 depends on package that does not exist

[Markus Koschany]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Am 15.01.2016 um 06:26 schrieb D. Jackson Peacock:
> Source: extremetuxracer
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When attempting to install extremetuxracer:i386 it failed due to unmet dependancies:
> 
> $ sudo aptitude install extremetuxracer:i386
>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>       extremetuxracer:i386{b} libfluidsynth1:i386{a} libmad0:i386{a} libmikmod3:i386{a} libopenal1:i386{a} 
>       libreadline6:i386{a} libsdl-mixer1.2:i386{a} libtcl8.5:i386{a} libvorbisfile3:i386{a} libxmu6:i386{a} 
>     0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>     Need to get 1,879 kB of archives. After unpacking 6,401 kB will be used.
>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      extremetuxracer:i386 : Depends: extremetuxracer-data:i386 (>= 0.4-7) which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package.
> 
> It's possible that extremetuxracer-data is architecture independent and would
> work with the i386 version, making this just an issue with how the dependancies
> are specified.
> 
> While installing the i386 version on an x86_64 architecture isn't important for
> normal use of the game, it is helpful as a test of using fullscreen OpenGL from
> an i386 application.

Hello,

the reason why this is currently not possible is because
extremetuxracer-data hasn't been marked as Multi-Arch: foreign yet.
Unfortunately this has to be done separately for every package and as
you said usually it is not important or necessary to install the i386
version on an x86_64 architecture. This is a very special use case.

I don't mind changing the -data package to Multi-Arch: foreign since
extremetuxracer is one of the more popular and well known FOSS games but
I don't consider this to be an severity important issue.

Regards,

Markus

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