Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64

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Author: Johannes Rohr
Date:  
To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64
2012/8/22 Christian Marillat <marillat@???>

> Johannes Rohr <jorohr@???> writes:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > if I recall correctly, mozilla-acroread on amd64 used to depend on
> > nspluginwrapper before you migrated it to multiarch, and without
> > nspluginwrapper it cannot be used. Of course, manually installing
> > nspluginwrapper and running the install command for the acroread
> > plugin is not a big deal, however, for non-technical users it
> > certainly is a real obstacle. Can't you have a depends on
> > nspluginwrapper for amd64 only and run the install command in postinst
> > on amd64?
>
> Packages for amd64 are native 64 bits binaries and thus nspluginwrapper
> isn't needed.
>


mozilla-acroread is an i386 package:

Package: mozilla-acroread
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/text
Installed-Size: 243
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@???>
Architecture: i386



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> Christian
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