Comment 4 for bug 1052721
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| Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote Re: [Bug 1052721] Re: Some packages say "not available for your current Ubuntu version" when viewed from purchase list | #4 |
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:31:45 -0000, Michael Nelson <email address hidden> wrote:
>> 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?
It will have it's own native package which I assume would install :)
I'm not sure I've understood the question, but if you look at the
available precise apps for any arch [1], the package 'irukandji' is
multiarch for precise and oneiric, but has i386 and amd64 builds for
natty and maverick. Does that make more sense?
[1] http://