[Bug 831768] Re: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

[Shahar Or]

Rolf and everyone, don't you think that this is all the same bug? The
fact that aptitude doesn't handle the multiarch support wisely.

The real motivation or multiarch is to allow to install some i386
packages in amd64 systems. I remember that until multiarch users used to
go something like 'dpkg -i --force' or something like that.

So aptitude shouldn't show all those duplicates. It should hide them
somewhere, perhaps consider them like different versions and the version
number should now also include the architecture.

OMG this turns aptitude mostly useless but how in the name of god is
this plausible considering that aptitude is the tool of choice for so
many users and sysadmins and developers.

Has everyone stopped using aptitude since Oneiric or am I missing
something?

This is clearly an upstream issue and the funny thing is that I don't
see much when looking for 'aptitude multiarch' in the interwebs.
Something's crazy here.

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Title:
  aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  TEST CASE:
  1. Enable multiarch (should be automatic on new oneiric systems)
  2. Install an i386 package on amd64 (like flashplugin-installer:i386)
  3. Mark something with a lot of dependencies for installation
  4. On the confirmation screen, try to remove on of the dependencies (aptitude will now fail to perform upgrades when there's a package conflict w/out removing the i386 libs)

  This renders aptitude painful on a multiarch enabled system (default
  in oneiric).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Aug 23 00:28:38 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-03-06 (169 days ago)

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