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

[Steve Langasek]

We should fix this for 12.04, but there's probably no hurry to fix it
right now; will wait and see if we get this in dpkg trunk before precise
releases and otherwise we can cherry pick.

** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Low
       Status: In Progress

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Precise)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04

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Title:
  dselect has an error in the "Provides: <package>" multiarch case

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “dpkg” source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in “dpkg” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  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)

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