Bug#672935: Installing lib32asound2-plugins solved it

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-05-27 22:45 +0200, Etienne Millon wrote:

> * reini <rrumberger at web.de> [120527 21:52]:
>
>> Perhaps the best solution is simply to wait for all necessary
>> dependencies to become multiarch-aware and to install zsnes:i386.
>
> That would be ideal, of course. The lack of libao on amd64 is
> particularly problematic, as without it there is only one engine
> available.

Regarding libao, there's #638741 requesting it to be converted to
multiarch.  That seems to be the only real obstacle to installing
zsnes:i386 on amd64, since the other dependencies are already
multiarchified.

> We can also assume that the SDL output (default on amd64) needs
> patching. FWIW, that's what caused terrible audio on visualboyadvance
> (#456501).
>
>> After all, the lib32* packages are supposed to be completely removed
>> in the long term (IIRC).

Probably ia32-libs-dev is going away in wheezy already, making zsnes
unbuildable on amd64.

> That won't happen for wheezy, but (I believe) probably for wheezy+1.

As maintainer of such a biarch beast (ncurses), I very much hope that
this will happen.  Getting rid of zsnes:amd64 would be a small step in
that direction.

Cheers,
       Sven