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

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hi Michal (hramrach)

> Any possible multiarch-specific issues will be lost in the
> heaps of issues the resolver already has.
>

Some do stand out quite harshly.  Consider #651748 [1] where the UI
is trashed by multi-arch related error messages from the resolver.
This is non-fatal but still a serious blocker.

I have not encountered it since some recent changes, however,
neither have I conducted an analysis to determine whether or not
it is actually resolved.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/651748

> The value I see in aptitude is an interactive UI for exploring
> packages and their dependencies which should be restored once aptitude
> can deal with packages of multiple architectures sanely.
>

Then you should be pleased with the changes made thus far :-)

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Title:
  aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

Status in aptitude:
  Unknown
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
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Unknown

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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