Bug#762035: gnome-icon-theme: Please mark package as Multi-Arch: foreign

[David Kozub]

Package: gnome-icon-theme
Version: 3.12.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

currently it's not possible to install i386 packages that depend on gnome-icon-theme
in amd64 Debian. This means it's impossible to install many i386 GUI applications.
For example, trying to install simple-scan:i386 results in the following error message
from aptitude:

* simple-scan:i386 depends on gnome-icon-theme:i386 [UNAVAILABLE]

Discussing the issue in OFTC IRC (#debian) I was pointed to "Multi-Arch: foreign" as a
possible solution.

I rebuilt gnome-icon-theme with "Multi-Arch: foreign" locally and it solved the issue
for me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-rc3bug (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-icon-theme depends on:
ii  hicolor-icon-theme  0.13-1
ii  libgtk-3-bin        3.12.2-3+b1
ii  librsvg2-common     2.40.3-2

gnome-icon-theme recommends no packages.

gnome-icon-theme suggests no packages.

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