On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 09:15:07AM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 Convert to multiarch
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:03:07PM -0700, Jesse Rhodes wrote:
> > Package: mono-runtime
> > Version: 2.10.8.1-6 0
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Fairly straightforward. An attempt to install mono-runtime:i386 on an amd64
> > system results in the following:
> >
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > mono-runtime:i386{b}
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 1,575 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,224 kB will be used.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > mono-runtime:i386 : Depends: mono-gac:i386 (= 2.10.8.1-6) which is a
> > virtual
> > package.
> > The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> >
> > Keep the following packages at their current version:
> > 1) mono-runtime:i386 [Not Installed]
> >
> >
> >
> > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
> >
> > *** No more solutions available ***
> >
> >
> > According to http://packages.debian.org/sid/mono-gac, the only available
> > architecture is "all."
>
> mono hasn't been converted to multiarch at all, so you can't expect this
> to work. I'll reform this bug report into a wishlist request to do that,
> but I doubt anybody will work on this any time soon. Help welcomed.
> It'll need some infrastructure work too.Also it's not entirely clear what this means. Perhaps you could explain what you're trying to achieve. It probably is valid, for example, to say that you want mono on a Debian system to be able to work with M-A installed libraries from foreign architectures. I don't really know at this point what a solution would look like, or if there is one. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
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