On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:38:36AM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: >> The package is in unstable and testing, but now is a multiarch >> package. There's a hint in the changelog: >> >> eagle (5.12.0-3) unstable; urgency=low >> . >> * Debian compat 9 >> * eagle-data made Multi-arch: foreign in debian/control >> * removed building on amd64 and use multiarch. Users must >> "$ dpkg --add-architecture i386" (Closes: #665327) > > Aha, thanks for the info. > > However, how is the amd64 user supposed to even find about the eagle > package if it is not shown in the package list by default, and that > they need to specify apt-get install eagle:i386 instead of just eagle? > > Well, perhaps I'm crying on the wrong grave... :) > > Petr "Pasky" Baudis
That's a great question - in Ubuntu it is discoverable by default (all amd64 have i386 on by default and they show up in the "software center"), but Debian doesn't yet. I think that once you added the i386 architecture to dpkg, that doing "apt-get install eagle" will first try to find eagle on amd64 and if it doesn't find it, install it from i386 (is that correct?) I think your question is a great one, but probably one for debian as a whole - I don't know the plans for how they plan on making bi-arch packages discoverable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
