On 2014-12-29 22:45 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > 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].
> Thanks, that was the information I was looking for. So if I understand > correctly, the bug relies in mate-terminal's packaging ? Yes, mate-terminal could probably safely be marked as "Multi-Arch: foreign". Feel free to file a bug for that. > 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. If the Multi-Arch field is present, apt-cache displays it. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/877fxadsdk....@turtle.gmx.de