On 22.06.19 13:58, Tim Schumacher wrote:
Creating some kind of PPA (doesn't have to necessarily be an "official" PPA on launchpad though, since they require packages to be source-built) is a good idea, it may be possible as well to just fetch the libs from Debian and putting them into the PPA.
My first thought also was PPA. However, AIUI, it will not be possible to have an i386 PPA on Ubuntu/Canonical infrastructure, since they remove support for it completely. Also I'm quite sure that uploading binary-i386-packages to e.g. an amd64-PPA can not work.
i386 and amd64 multiarch libraries usually have to be completely in sync. So you can't "just" install the i386 libraries from Debian.
To provide 32-bit Wine as regular package I can't imagine any solution which doesn't involve maintaining a large part of the Ubuntu archive for i386, and providing the infrastructure to build and distribute it.
In Debian you have this done by very few, but dedicated people for the unofficial "ports" for e.g. m68k, or hurd and kfreebsd. Given that Debian still supports i386 this would be much easier for Ubuntu.
Greets jre