Comment 3 for bug 1052721

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 1052721] Re: Some packages say "not available for your current Ubuntu version" when viewed from purchase list

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:31:45 -0000, Michael Nelson <email address hidden> wrote:
> The attached sca branch only fixes the HIB thank-you page on software-
> center-agent (so that when buying an app that is multi-arch using
> Chromium, you won't be told that it's not available yet).
>
> We also discussed on irc [1] whether sca could potentially provide a
> work-around for USC's "Reinstall previous purchases" by appending :i386
> to all multi-arch apps, but in the end it seems this isn't possible,
> because at that point (the /subscriptions/ api handler), sca does not
> currently know the client distroseries (and whether it will understand
> :i386 suffixes) [2].

Will an old distroseries that doesn't understand that syntax be able to
install that package if it can find it?

Thanks,

James