[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718453] Re: apt does not download dep11 files for foreign architectures and appstream cannot find applications for these archs.

2020-01-03 Thread Matthias Klumpp
At this point, I think it's safe to say that implementing full multiarch support for AppStream simply isn't going to happen, at least not anytime soon. It's simply easier for app authors to provide native implementations for amd64 instead of relying on i386 compatibility. If support was implemen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718453] Re: apt does not download dep11 files for foreign architectures and appstream cannot find applications for these archs.

2018-01-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
@donkult: The downloads for all architectures are not allowed at time, because doing so would lead to AppStream-ID collisions, and AppStream itself has no notion of architectures (yet - I played around with that a bit, but there is no definitive good solution yet). For downloading Components-all,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718453] Re: apt does not download dep11 files for foreign architectures and appstream cannot find applications for these archs.

2018-01-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
apt does what it is told – appstream configures apt to download only the files for the native architecture, so there is no sensible action to be taken by apt and hence this task invalid. If "$(NATIVE_ARCHITECTURE)" in the apt.conf file shipped by appstream is changed to "$(ARCHITECTURE)" apt will