[Bug 853679] [NEW] dselect has an error in the "Provides: <package>" multiarch case

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Sebastien Bacher (seb128):

When a package like libcms1 that has a Provides: field is installed for more then one architecture
the resulting conflict is not resolved by internally distinguishing between the (two) architectures.

Instead dselect tries to uninstall one of the two packages. This is not
the correct solution.

apt-get upgrade doesn't show this behaviour and handles this situation
correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dselect 1.16.0.3ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 19 08:40:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: dpkg (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Fix Released


** Tags: apport-bug multiarch oneiric patch udd-find
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dselect has an error in the "Provides: <package>" multiarch case
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853679
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