[Bug 1123710] Re: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 19 February 2013 03:54, Scott Ritchie <scottritchie at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I agree with the sentiment about apt, however I thought it was the
> current case that if a recommended (same-arch) package isn't available
> in the archive, it does get simply ignored.

Quite right, for ‘install’ and ‘dist-upgrade’ at least.  Curiously
this is inconsistent when ‘upgrade’, which will not upgrade a package
with missing recommends.  Perhaps they should be handled consistently
one way or the other, prefering the safety of not installing the base
package.

Relaxing the behaviour in the multiarch case is probably not so
useful, as then foo:foreign and foo:native will unpredictably have
different capabilities due to recommends.

Attached is a test case for apt attempting to capture the situation in
the report.  On Debian sid (apt 0.9.7.6) it does not recreate the not
installable result yet, so needs some further tweaking.


** Attachment added: "test-multiarch-recommends"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123710/+attachment/3535842/+files/test-multiarch-recommends

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Title:
  wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gnome-exe-thumbnailer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ttf-droid” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ttf-liberation” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ttf-umefont” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ttf-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “wine1.4” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “winetricks” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in Debian GNU/Linux:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If a user wants 32-bit only wine, a reasonable way to get it would be
  to install wine1.4:i386.  However, this is not possible on amd64.
  Currently apt spews this complaint:

   wine1.4:i386 : Depends: wine1.4-i386:i386 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu4)
                  Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer:i386 but it is not installable or
                              kde-runtime:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: ttf-droid:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-liberation:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-umefont:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-wqy-microhei:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: winetricks:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: xdg-utils:i386 but it is not installable

  gnome-exe-thumbnailer, xdg-utils, and the fonts are arch: all and
  should be marked multiarch:foreign to indicate that it is ok to
  install them for the nonnative wine1.4 (they are cross-arch shell
  scripts).  winetricks is currently arch i386 and amd64 and should
  probably be marked arch: all (especially for upcoming arm wine).

  apt will then freak out about conflicts and give up.  apt-get --no-
  install-recommends wine1.4:i386, however, will actually complete.  I'm
  not sure this is correct behavior for apt, as in principle it should
  be able to figure out that it can succeed with the command by omitting
  recommended packages.

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