Package: wine Version: 1.8-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi,
attempting to run a 32bit .exe with only 'wine' (but not 'wine32') installed on a 64-bit system will cause wine to abort, printing "Bad EXE format". While this message may be technically correct, it doesn't help identify the root cause: that in order to run a 32bit executable, I need a 32bit wine installation alongside the 64bit one. I would suggest to print something like "64bit wine can't run 32bit executables" or similar. Arguably it would also make sense to Recommends: wine32, wine64 (in addition to Depending on either), because in the real world, a 64bit-only wine installation isn't terribly useful in most cases. Best regards, Andras -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (350, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.13-vs2.3.8.3-hellgate (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: runit Versions of packages wine depends on: ii wine32 1.8-2 ii wine64 1.8-2 wine recommends no packages. Versions of packages wine suggests: pn dosbox <none> pn wine-binfmt <none> Versions of packages wine is related to: ii fonts-wine 1.8-2 ii libwine 1.8-2 pn libwine-dbg <none> pn libwine-dev <none> ii wine 1.8-2 ii wine32 1.8-2 pn wine32-preloader <none> pn wine32-tools <none> ii wine64 1.8-2 pn wine64-preloader <none> pn wine64-tools <none> -- no debconf information