Package: dosbox Version: 0.74-4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Control: block 792125 by -1
Hi, since dosbox 0.74-4.1 you can run 16-bit Windows applications by typing "wine FOO.EXE". Thanks for that! Now I wanted to add a dependency from wine on dosbox (see bug #792125), but noted that this only works if the 32-bit part of wine is installed. This is wine32 which is only built on 32-bit architectures. On 64-bit architectures you install it from a foreign architecture. E.g. on amd64 you install wine32:i386. Now, on a amd64 system with wine32 depending on dosbox, this dependency is only satisfied by the foreign dosbox:i386. But what I want (and what works) is the native dosbox:amd64. The shortcut in the wine packaging would be to add the dependency on dosbox in the arch all package "wine", but this doesn't reflect the requirement for wine32 being installed. Therefore I ask you to make dosbox multi-arch aware by changing it from the implicit "Multi-Arch: no" to "Multi-Arch: foreign". This allows dosbox to satisfy dependencies from another arch, but doesn't change anything in dosbox (e.g. its files continue to be installed to the same places as before). See attached patch, which I successfully built and tested on amd64. No special dependencies or build-dependencies are needed in order to use Multi-Arch: foreign. Thanks jre For reference see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec: Multi-Arch: no The package is not co-installable and it must not be used to satisfy the dependency of any package of another architecture than its own. This is the pre-multiarch behavior. Multi-Arch: foreign The package is not co-installable and should be allowed to satisfy the dependencies of a package of another architecture than its own. If a package is declared Multi-Arch: foreign, preference should be given to a package for the native architecture if available; if it is not available, the package manager may automatically install any available package, regardless of architecture, or it may choose to make this an option controlled by user configuration. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dosbox depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.29-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-21 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.6.8-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii libsdl-net1.2 1.2.8-4 ii libsdl-sound1.2 1.0.3-7+b1 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15-11 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-21 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dosbox recommends no packages. dosbox suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 70aa1d4..0fe2da6 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/dosbox.git Package: dosbox Architecture: any +Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound and DOS DOSBox is a x86 emulator with Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics,
