On 2012-06-09 18:39 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> package: dpkg
> version: 1.16.4.1
> severity: important
> user: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> usertags: multiarch
>
> Hi,
>
> wine is now making use of the 'Multi-Arch: allowed' feature to provide
> i386 dependencies for an amd64 virtual package. Unfortunately, this
> setup is leading to a lot of bug reports from users that don't realize
> that they need to manually enable multiarch support first:
> http://bugs.debian.org/676457
> http://bugs.debian.org/676635
>
> I wonder if most of this confusion could be avoided if dpkg were a bit
> more informative in cases where the user was trying to install
> 'Multi-Arch: allowed' packages, but hadn't yet enabled multiarch?
My bet is that it almost surely would not, because without multiarch
enabled apt does not consider these packages as installable, so the user
is not going to download them and run dpkg in the first place.
In high-level package managers such messages might make sense, but I
don't think they do in dpkg.
Cheers,
Sven
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