BOINC for amd64 should depend on the libc6-i386 or ia32-libs

http://bugs.debian.org/562431 is similar, bug suggests recommending ia32-libs instead.

At http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366741#10 I've found something related, but it got never applied (AFAICS).

Could someone please help me with a patch that would keep the package functional on non Intel|AMD machines?
One can recommend about everything, but to truly depend on it ... donno.

Today, the setting is

Package: boinc-client
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python (>= 2.3), adduser, ca-certificates
Suggests: boinc-app-seti, boinc-manager, x11-xserver-utils, ia32-libs

Package: boinc-manager
Section: x11
Recommends: boinc-client, ia32-libs
Suggests: libgl1-mesa-glx, libxt6

and this is motivated by the observation that the scientific applications themselves are commonly completely static while the graphics often explicitly needs the 32 bit variant. Am I wrong? What projects are making those problems?

The answer is to add the architecture name in braces. 6.12.32+ shall bring it.

After reading through http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366741, which expresses a fierce opposition to a dependency on the ia32 libs, I have now changed my mind and will leave it with the recommends.

This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 6.12.32+dfsg-1

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boinc (6.12.32+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    - finally contains MAXPATHLEN fixes for building on HURD
    - fewer warnings while compiling (some Debian patches
      accepted)
  * Initial preparations for merging with developments
    for Debian and beyond at SZTAKI, Budapest.
  * amd64 package now explicitly presents itself also
    as i686 savvy as an alternative platform name and such such it now
    not only recommends but depends with its -client on ia32-lib
    (Closes: #562431) (lp: #560143).

boinc (6.12.28+dfsg-7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Added download script for binary applications from
    Debian.
  * Added recommends in -manager for ia32-lib-gtk
    for amd64 only to better guarantee functional graphics
  * Added recommends in -client for ia32-lib
  * Added recommends to -server-maker to uuid-runtime for genuuid

boinc (6.12.28+dfsg-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change amd64 platform name to upstream's
    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu from x86_64-linux-gnu.

boinc (6.12.28+dfsg-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Drop build-dep on obsolete libxcb-atom (closes: #626669). That code was
    disabled by debian/patches/Makefile_subdirs.patch anyway.
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