Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
I tried out to install two new programs, one that is listed, one that is not.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
In both cases the wizard for installing opened. In the case of the not-listed
program I chose 32 bit installation. When I chose 64bit the process continued,
but led to another bug (not described here). In the case of the listed program
(tax software ElsterFormular) PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.6 again (although
the very same version is already installed from the official resources).

   * What was the outcome of this action?
In the end I got this error message: "Error in POL_Wine // Wine scheint
abgestürzt zu sein // Wenn Ihr Programm weiter läuft, ignorieren Sie diese
Nachricht" (english: Wine seems to have crashed. If your program continues,
ignore this message.) The message is displayed repeatedly after every step of
the installation process. In the end the program is not installed. When I am
told only to click on continue after the installation is finished I wait for
hours, but nothing happens. Clicking on "continue" means the program is not
installed.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
That everything works fine. ;)

I discovered that Wine was missing i386-support. After installing wine32
the problems vanished (others appeared).

So why does POL display such a vague message? This needs to be changed.

PlayOnLinux seems to require that the system wine be 32-bit, even though
PlayOnLinux is later able to install and manage various 32-bit and
64-bit versions of wine in the PlayOnLinux sandbox.

Wine package naming changed in Jessie, so at least on amd64, PlayOnLinux
should now explicitly depend on wine32:i386.  Depending on wine is not
sufficient, because the wine package is simply a meta-package that
allows either wine32 or wine64 to be installed, and PlayOnLinux breaks
when using 64-bit system wine.

I do not know whether or not there are packaging policies regarding this
sort of dependency, where PlayOnLinux works fine on the amd64
architecture, but depends on a package from the i386 architecture. In
any case, I would not want to see PlayOnLinux removed from the amd64
architecture, as the issue can be worked around by manually adding the
i386 architecture and installing wine32.

Thanks,

Daniel Kauffman
Lead Developer
Rock Solid Solutions, LLC
877.239.9195 toll-free
208.699.9699 mobile

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
playonlinux, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 783875@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Bertrand Marc <beberking@gmail.com> (supplier of updated playonlinux package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:14:57 +0200
Source: playonlinux
Binary: playonlinux
Architecture: source all
Version: 4.2.8-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bertrand Marc <beberking@gmail.com>
Description:
 playonlinux - front-end for Wine
Closes: 783875
Changes:
 playonlinux (4.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * Update debian/copyright to match the new tree.
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I don't believe that the fix here closes this bug...

Daniel Kauffman wrote "PlayOnLinux should now explicitly depend on
wine32:i386" but instead it depends just on wine32, i.e. without the
arch specification.  This means that this package fails to meet the
dependencies and so cannot enter testing...

Thanks,
Jack

Le 24/12/2015 03:16, Jack Underwood a écrit :

Indeed. You are welcome to provide a patch fixing this.

Regards,
Bertrand

Control: reopen -1


Bug reopened because it is not fixed yet.

Regards,

Markus

I just thought I would have a try, having never done any kind of
packaging before, when I noticed failed previous attempts in the logs,
with links to
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00269.html in the
previous commit messages and the followup which makes it look quite
tricky...

Do you know if anything has changed since then?  Any new information
etcetera?

If not, perhaps we go about this the wrong way, instead of bringing a
32-bit arch to the user, we should bring the user to the 32-bit arch...
i.e. at the end of the install we can detect if wine32 or
wine32-development has been installed, and if not, notify the user that
they should install it... does that sound possible?

Also I now see that the perl-transition has removed playonlinux from
testing... did that occur because of this bug?  I.e. because we have a
newer (broken control file) version in sid?  Or because of the
transition itself?  If the former we should definitely just remove this
dependency to allow playonlinux before continuing our tests to get it to
install.

Best,
Jack

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:52:59 +0100 Jack Underwood <juichenieder-debbie@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[...]

I agree and I am going to remove the dependency on
wine32|wine32-development for now to ensure that the package can migrate
to testing.

Regards,

Markus

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I guess you sent the message to the wrong bugreport. Maybe #799200, as
seen in your pictures, was intended.

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Would it be acceptable to show a debconf dialog/warning to the user?
For example


```
playonlinux requires a 32-bit installation of wine

Please make sure multi-arch is enabled:
	dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt update
And install the wine:i386 package:
	apt install wine:i386
```

I spent some time debugging this before finding the bug report.
To make matters worse the playonlinux message is very vague.
I think reminding users to manually install a dependency would help
many.

Thanks

Dear Maintainers,

I get the same problem but I'm trying to install Dashlane (a password
manager), a non-listed program (at least I selected non-listed). The program
does run after installation but I do still get that error message. After I
click 'OK' on the error message, it goes to another dialog which shows
'loading' and seems never to end (it just stays there).

See screenshots for info.

I can confirm that Dashlane is actually installed (on the playonlinux virtual
drive) but doesn't not appear as an entry on playonlinux.

Phil

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.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1110516

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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