Hey

Since playonlinux can install and manage its own wine versions it would be nice
if the wine dependency could be changed to a recommendation. That way wine
would still be installed in normal installations but experienced users could
remove it instead of having a stale old version of wine sitting around unused.

Just a thought.

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it with the new version of
PlayOnLinux I'm planning to upload to unstable. Unfortunately, POL gives
a warning at every start if wine is not installed in PATH.

So unless POL changes this, I'm tagging this as a wontfix.

Cheers,
Bertrand

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.

Dear maintainer,

playonlinux depends on "wine | wine-unstable" but those package do not have to
be installed on amd64 to have operational wine. For example on amd64 I'm
getting the following error when I'm trying to install "playonlinux" while I
have "wine-unstable:i386" installed:

~~~~
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 playonlinux : Depends: wine but it is not going to be installed or
                        wine-unstable but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
~~~~

Needless to say that such hard dependency make "playonlinux" unnecessary
difficult to install. Please consider to demote "wine | wine-unstable" to
Recommends.

Furthermore "wine-unstable" no longer provides `wine` executable (it provides
`wine-unstable`) hence dialog

~~~~
PlayOnLinux cannot find wine (from Wine)

You should install it to use PlayOnLinux
~~~~

still appears and probably needs patching. IMHO the very presence of this
dialog destroys the argument for keeping "wine | wine-unstable" in Depends.

Thanks for consideration.

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Dear submitter,

as the package playonlinux has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

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