Control: retitle -1 xdg-desktop-portal-kde: should be Multi-Arch: foreign, so it satisfies steam:i386 Recommends Control: reassign -1 xdg-desktop-portal-kde Control: affects -1 + steam Control: tags -1 + patch
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 17:49:42 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > steam:i386 has a recommendation for xdg-desktop-portal-backend:i386 ... > xdg-desktop-portal-kde fails to satisfy the dependency. > > xdg-dekstop-portal-kde:i385 conflicts (via libkf5services-bin) with my 64-bit > KDE Plasma environemtn. .. > Maybe this is not properly a steam bug, and should be handled by > xdg-dekstop-portal-kde source package instead. Yes, I think this is something for xdg-desktop-portal-kde to solve. It should almost certainly be Multi-Arch: foreign, like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is, so that xdg-desktop-portal-kde:amd64 can simultaneously satisfy the dependencies of (for example) both flatpak:amd64 and steam:i386. xdg-desktop-portal users like Flatpak and Steam communicate with the portal (and, indirectly, its backends) via an architecture-independent D-Bus interface, so it doesn't matter if their architectures don't match. This is exactly the use-case for which Multi-Arch: foreign was designed. Untested patch: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/7 > But, I do think stream > architecture-dependent dependency is a big part of why this isn't working so > well for me. Sorry, there is no change to steam that can solve this. As long as xdg-desktop-portal-kde is Multi-Arch: no (the default), the dpkg dependency system does not provide a way for steam to declare a dependency on "xdg-desktop-portal-kde of any architecture". Workaround: install xdg-desktop-portal:amd64 and xdg-desktop-portal-kde:amd64, and either leave steam's Recommends on xdg-desktop-portal-backend unsatisfied, or install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk as well (any architecture, but preferably amd64). In a KDE/Plasma environment, xdg-desktop-portal should still prefer to use xdg-desktop-portal-kde (as a result of the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable) even if xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is also installed, so you should still get KDE-style UIs rather than GTK/GNOME-style UIs while running a KDE/Plasma session. smcv
