[Bug 876650] Re: Package libc6-dev-i386 incorrectly named libc6-dev-amd64

[John S]

There's definitely something strange going on here, and I'm wondering
how many dependencies are affected.  Furthermore, is this just a package
naming problem, or is there something a little more strange going on?

I'm running a fresh 64-bit installation of oneiric.  I have libc6-i386
installed, which seems by the previous post as though it actually
contains the amd64 version of the package.  But, for me it puts a link
called libc.so.6 into /lib32, and puts nothing in /lib64.  When I tried
to install a program which needed libc.so.6 (in my case, Matlab), it
looked for it in /lib64.  (I took the easy way out and just made a
symlink in /lib64, seems to work for now.)

Also, when I try to install libc6-amd64, I get either some cryptic error
messages saying that I need libraries in the versions which I have or
else I get a "no candidate package to be installed" message.

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Title:
  Package libc6-dev-i386 incorrectly named libc6-dev-amd64

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  From this link
  (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libc6-dev&searchon=names&suite=oneiric&section=all),
  you can see that there is a strange thing going on in Ubuntu 11.10
  packages. The libc6-dev-i386 is made for the AMD64 architecture, while
  the libc6-dev-amd64 is made for the i386 architecture. As far as I can
  tell, it should the other way around, i.e., the names are mixed up.

  I asked this as a question earlier here:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+question/174876

  Greetings, 
  Nedim Srndic

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