Le 29/12/2014 22:31, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2014-12-29 21:35 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > >> On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm | >> x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which >> provides x-terminal-emulator, but both apt and aptitude don't care and >> want to install xterm along with steam. >> >> Shouldn't apt be happy with mate-terminal:amd64 and install steam >> without pulling xterm in ? > > No, because (unlike xterm) mate-terminal is not marked as > "Multi-Arch: foreign" and thus cannot fulfill dependencies of > packages from a different architecture[1]. > > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Binary_package_control_fields
Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. So if I understand correctly, the bug relies in mate-terminal's packaging ? Is there a way to check a control file's Multi-Arch field without downloading the source package ? apt-cache show doesn't display it. -- Raphaël Halimi
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