Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64

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Author: Lennart Sorensen
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: mozilla-acroread on amd64
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 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.


Would a 'recommends' be appropriate? If it doesn't exist it does
nothing, but if it does it would install (at least on default Debian
setups these days).

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Len Sorensen