Bug#1070773: libglib2.0-dev:i386 on amd64 should not require qemu-user
Simon McVittie
smcv at debian.org
Thu May 9 12:05:49 BST 2024
Control: retitle -1 libglib2.0-dev:i386 on amd64 should not require qemu-user
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 + help
On Wed, 08 May 2024 at 23:32:03 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > So, I now have to install qemu-user as dependency, which comes with a few other
> > heavy dependencies. Is this really needed, and how does that help at all?
>
> For the special case of i386 on an amd64 system, qemu is usually not
> actually needed because amd64 systems can nearly always run i386 binaries
> directly (although I believe there are kernel configurations that will
> not allow that), but it's not obvious how to express that conditional
> dependency in apt syntax.
>
> Tested patches welcome
Retitling the bug to reflect this.
smcv
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