On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:55:53PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >... > $ apt-cache show crossbuild-essential-mips64el | grep Depends: > Depends: gcc-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 (>= 4:10.2) | gcc:mips64el, > g++-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 (>= 4:10.2) | g++:mips64el, dpkg-cross > > But other packages use the same thing. Why does it work there?
An alternative dependency might be in non-free or might not exist at all. Package: box64 Architecture: amd64 arm64 ppc64el riscv64 Depends: libgcc-s1:amd64, libstdc++6:amd64, A package must not assume that the user has other architectures enabled. There is a general issue around such dependencies, and also the more specific problem that permitting cross-architecture dependencies would also require checking that migrating a package for one architecture does not break dependencies on other architectures. For box64, using libgcc-s1-amd64-cross and libstdc++6-amd64-cross might be an option (untested). cu Adrian
