Bug#693669: Lower wine dependency to a recommendation

Tim Allen screwtape at froup.com
Sun Apr 6 11:36:24 UTC 2014


I'd like to request that this bug be re-opened, because POL's hard
dependency on Wine makes the package substantially less useful than it
would otherwise be.

My current system is (like many other people's) amd64, and so I'm using
Debian's multiarch feature to install wine:i386 to run games with.
Unfortunately, due to the way multiarch dependencies work right now,
playonlinux's "wine" dependency can only be satisfied by wine:amd64
which doesn't support any of the (32-bit) apps I want to run.

So, I have to choose between having a Debian-supplied Wine and running
my own playonlinux, or having a Debian-supplied playonlinux and using
their generic 32-bit Wine builds. I'd really like to have Debian
everything.

Even better would be if the Debian package for "playonlinux" supported
both the wine:i386 (which provides a 'wine' binary) and
wine-unstable:i386 (which provides a 'wine-unstable' binary).

Thanks for your time.



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