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

[Michal Suchanek]

On 10 March 2012 05:49, Daniel Hartwig <831768 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> 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.

Is this multiarch specific?

IIRC I got this noise way before multiarch, there was just way less
noise before there were packages aptitude does not understand.

Now that aptitude understands multiarch packages you should not get
bazillions of errors.

Sure, it's still potential problem that there is no rate limit on
these messages or anything but it's no longer likely that you will not
see any UI at all due to messages rolling all over your screens
constantly.

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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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