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Bug#819206: marked as done (linux-image-amd64 jessie backport not in i386 repos)

Your message dated Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:58:29 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#819206: linux-image-amd64 jessie backport not in i386 repos
has caused the Debian Bug report #819206,
regarding linux-image-amd64 jessie backport not in i386 repos
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 4.3+70~bpo8+1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

in debian jessie i can install linux-image-amd64 even if i386 is the
only architecture that is being used by apt/dpkg. however this
metapackage is not available to i386 users of jessie-backports unless
they add the amd64 architecture with

# dpkg --add-architecture amd64

for many i386 users this may be the only amd64 package they wish to
install. it would be nice if this amd64 package was in the i386
backports for the sake of convenience.

thanks,
andrew


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (320,
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64  4.3.5-1~bpo8+1

linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
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On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 18:50 -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> Package: linux-image-amd64
> Version: 4.3+70~bpo8+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> in debian jessie i can install linux-image-amd64 even if i386 is the
> only architecture that is being used by apt/dpkg. however this
> metapackage is not available to i386 users of jessie-backports unless
> they add the amd64 architecture with
> 
> # dpkg --add-architecture amd64
> 
> for many i386 users this may be the only amd64 package they wish to
> install. it would be nice if this amd64 package was in the i386
> backports for the sake of convenience.

Then it would have an unsatisfiable dependency.  How is that
convenient?  I guess you actually want the real linux-image-<abi>-amd64 
package to be provided for i386 too.  Well, it's not coming back.
Embrace multiarch.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.

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