[Bug 845183] Re: aptitude is confused by multi-arch support

[Gabriel de Perthuis]

sudo sh -c 'aptitude keep-all; aptitude install' lists most of my i386
packages for removal. /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates does not seem to
include an architecture field.

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Title:
  aptitude is confused by multi-arch support

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Now that I'm on Oneiric, aptitude is barely useable. I have multi-arch
  support turned on as I'm on amd64 architecture and some software is
  only available as 32 bits.

  But that confuses aptitude. Most packages are listed twice in the
  display (once for each enabled architecture). But it's only when you
  install something that you know if you asked for the i386 or amd64
  package.

  Also, it confuses it's dependency solver a lot. In many cases, i ended
  up in a situation where it wanted to remove tens of packages.

  Workaround: use the software center or apt-get for the time being.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep  8 17:55:57 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-08 (0 days ago)

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