[Bug 50316] New: Debian Packages - The 64 bit wine packages alone work perfectly well for 64 bit applications, but hard depend on the 32 bit parts

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50316

Bug ID: 50316
           Summary: Debian Packages - The 64 bit wine packages alone work
                    perfectly well for 64 bit applications, but hard
                    depend on the 32 bit parts
           Product: Packaging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-packages
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

So for 64 bit Windows applications the 32 bit (WoW64) wine component is not
needed.
But for the provided Debian packages, the wine-devel package depends on
wine-devel-i386. I understand that you want to make sure all required pices are
pulled for a standard install. But when the i386 architecture is not enabled,
this prevents the installation of wine from your packages.

I tested changing
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.17), wine-devel-i386 (=
5.22~bullseye), wine-devel-amd64 (= 5.22~bullseye)
to
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.17), wine-devel-amd64 (=
5.22~bullseye)
and that installs perfectly and runs any 64 bit appalication without issue,
without chaning any other wine packages.

As far as I understand it, if packages list stuff in
Recommends: libcap2-bin, wine-devel-i386 (= 5.22~bullseye)
apt standard behavior is still to install it all, but it doesn't block if they
are not there.

So that or something else with similar effect might be worth a consideration.

Thanks a lot for your time.

[Bug 50316] Debian Packages - The 64 bit wine packages alone work perfectly well for 64 bit applications, but hard depend on the 32 bit parts

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Tecame  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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       Distribution|---                         |Debian

[Bug 50316] Debian Packages - The 64 bit wine packages alone work perfectly well for 64 bit applications, but hard depend on the 32 bit parts

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #1 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
That's intentional. Most Windows apps still have 32 bit parts, particularly the
installers. WoW64 is at present the only supported configuration.

[Bug 50316] Debian Packages - The 64 bit wine packages alone work perfectly well for 64 bit applications, but hard depend on the 32 bit parts

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50316

Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Closing WONTFIX.