Hello Andrei, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > $ dpkg-deb -I debs/skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb > Architecture: i386 > Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libc6 (>= 2.7), > libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.8.0), > libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= > 4:4.8.0), libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libx11-6, > libxext6, libxss1, libxv1, libssl1.0.0
Previously, Skype offered this i386 package and an amd64 package that was really the same but with Architecture:amd64 and a dependency on ia32-libs*. > As far as I can tell this is a plain i386 packages. Besides (haven't > read the multiarch specification), I don't think applications need any > conversion. One just needs to activate the proper architecture(s) and > then let the package managers do their job. Exactly. And Skype stopped putting out fake amd64 packages and decided to use multi-arch to support the amd64 users, the result of which is the above ‘multi-arch’ package. This doesn’t mean that the package is co-installable with itself or something like that. Best, Claudius -- CRSid cfh36
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