On Sunday, March 04, 2012 08:02:48 PM Scott Ritchie wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.4/+bug/938310 is a bug > where Wine breaks because it doesn't have the i386 libncurses5, but only > on amd64. libncurses5 has never been an explicit depends of Wine, > because it's always been on the system anyway - it wasn't until users > were installing i386 Wine on an amd64 system that it became possible to > not have the library. > > > I imagine there will be similar cases like this in the future, as a lot > of packages (correctly) assume that required packages are available. I > believe even debhelper won't autogenerate dependencies on them. > > > So, I suggest: > - If the user is installing a foreign arch package > - and there are uninstalled priority:required packages for that arch > - and these packages are also installed on the system > - and these packages are marked multi-arch: same > > Then they should be treated as Recommends and installed automatically. > > Thoughts? Too late to do this for Precise?
libncurses5 is not essential, so it seems like a simple case of missing depends. Making the assumption that transitive dependency resolution will bring in packages your package needs via another package depends is a bug. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
