[Bug 817181] Re: does not indicate foreign architecture when mentioning removal of non-host architecture packages

[Colan Schwartz]

Wow, the removal of all those packages was supposed to happen?  I just
assumed that was a weird error.  Besides wanting to remove libc6 and
many other things, it looked like it was trying to have two different
"qdbus" packages installed, both the same version.  Rather than removing
libc6, and other things that looked equally dangerous, I removed one of
the "qdbus" packages.  This had the effect of "aptitude install" not
wanting to do anything, which I thought fixed it.  However, this now
seems wrong.

(1) If my set-up is indeed wrong, what can I do to bring it in-line with the expected packages?
(2) How can I verify that it's correct?

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Title:
  does not indicate foreign architecture when mentioning removal of non-
  host architecture packages

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  aptitude currently did not mention that the packages it was about to
  remove were for the architecture "i386" (while my host architecture is
  amd64). This made it slightly worrying to see it propose the removal
  of the "libc6" package.

  It would be nice if it could, like apt-get, mention the architecture
  of a package if it is foreign.

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