Comment 3 for bug 405176

I have installed app-install-data-partner 11.9.04.3 from jaunty-proposed, and can confirm that alfresco, symphony, acroread, and adobe-flashplugin are all searchable and installable on i386, and that package install and removal continues to work there.

I have some concerns with this update on amd64, however.

  1) alfresco-community correctly show up and is installable, so that's okay.

  2) adobe-flashplugin shows up in the search list, but there are no amd64 packages available. It is not selectable/installable (in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data-partner/+bug/405176/comments/1 #2 perhaps brian meant acroread?)

  3) symphony also shows up, but again no amd64 packages. Not selectable/installable

  4) acroread shows up and there *is* an amd64 package in the partner archive, but the package is not selectable/installable through gnome-app-install because /usr/share/app-install/desktop/acroread.desktop contains:

     X-AppInstall-Architectures=i386

  Fixing that to add amd64 makes the acroread packages installable. This is also likely an issue in intrepid.

I suspect (4) ought to be fixed by this update. Ideally, symphony and adobe-flashplugin (2) and (3) wouldn't show up as available on amd64, but perhaps a bug in gnome-app-install itself. Note that if you add amd64 to their .desktop files, they become selectable, but then gnome-app-install goes through the work of (re-)adding the partner archive, updating the apt cache, and eventually pops up a dialog to indicate that the package is not available on amd64 -- at least this gives an indication to the user why it can't be installed, unlike the merely unselectable entry if things are done as they currently are.

One last thing: some of these packages have lpia versions. Should the desktop files also contain lpia where they exist?

Thanks.