Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64

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Author: Christian Marillat
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64
Johannes Rohr <jorohr@???> writes:

> 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


I mixed up flash player in the previous message and acroread...

Otherwise no, isn't possible to add a dependency for only an
arch.

Christian