OpenAL 1.15.x Breaks Multiarch (makes 32-bit wine uninstallable on 64-bit system)

[Daryl Hughes]

When 1 install's OpenAL which was a resent upgrade it removes a program called wine and after it is done installed if you try to reinstall Wine it says its broken.

When ya remove Open-AL and reinstall Wine it wants to remove the entire Ubuntu Desktop components that make it.

theres a History log of Upgrade progress below
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ApportVersion: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: darkangel 2279 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: darkangel 2279 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=a22cc369-bf57-44d6-88c0-2de766873fd6
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-20 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520)
IwConfig:
 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 lo no wireless extensions.

 virbr0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: eMachines EL1360G
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcFB:

ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.16.0-5-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-5.10-generic 3.16.0-rc6
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.16.0-5-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.16.0-5-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.132
RfKill:

Tags: utopic
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-5-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 11/16/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: AMI
dmi.bios.version: P01-C1
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: EL1360G
dmi.board.vendor: eMachines
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: eMachines
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAMI:bvrP01-C1:bd11/16/2011:svneMachines:pnEL1360G:pvr:rvneMachines:rnEL1360G:rvr:cvneMachines:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: EL1360G
dmi.sys.vendor: eMachines

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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

We saw the same thing with Debian with the recent openal update. The cause is that roaraudio support was added (back) to openal , and roaraudio is not compatible with multiarch (so wine is not installable). https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755846

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Added openal in case the devs want to pursue dropping roaraudio support from openal as the workaround.

[Bret Curtis (psi29a)]

Discussing the options now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

I dropped the roaraudio support in OpenAL and put a "fixed" version of openal in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/ubuntu/mediahacks/+packages

If you have no idea what roaraudio is and just want to install wine again, this should help (it worked on my Utopic VM)

Obviously, if you need the roaraudio backend for some reason, you don't want to use my version.

[Barry Drake (b-drake)]

Thanks for the workaround. As I haven't a clue what roaraudio is, I'll probably never need it. I have wine back again in Utopic!

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

openal-soft (1:1.15.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Removing RoarAudio (libsndio) dependency until bug:755846 is fixed.
  * The above also happens to fix the multi-arch problem. (Closes: 756066)

 -- Bret Curtis <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:37:25 +0100

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

roaraudio is still not multiarch compatible, but I have moved that to a separate bug since Debian OpenAL has made the decision to move forward without roar: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/roaraudio/+bug/1349663