Bug#687506: libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32: Package has unfulfillable recommends

[Ralf Jung]

Package: libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32
Version: 304.48-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

the current sid version of libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32:amd64 recommends
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386:amd64 (I added the implicit architecture qualifiers
to avoid confusion). There is however no such package, nor any
package providing this package. The package libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 provides
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386:i386, but it is (naturally) MA: same, so it
can't fulfill the recommendation of a foreign-arch package.
This looks to me like an attempt to create a cross-arch dependency, but such
dependencies are - as far as I know - not supported by the current state of
multiarch. To my knowledge, they are planned to be added as part of the
multiarch cross-toolchains GSoC [1], but I don't know what the current state
of affairs is there.

[1] http://gsoc.sitedethib.com/posts/State_of_Multiarch_Cross-toolchains_three_weeks_after_GSoC/

Kind regards,
Ralf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5.3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash