Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the dependency solver of aptitude always wants to uninstall all froeign- architecture packages I have installed, even if they got nothing to do with the dependency problem at hand. I added i386 as foreign architecture to my amd64 system, and installed some i386 libraries (libc6, libxslt, a few more). When I now install a package which breaks an installed one, aptitude always suggests to uninstall all foreign-architecture packages. For example: * I installed apache2, which automaticaly selected apache2-mpm-worker * After installation, I selected apache2-mpm-prfork for installation. Now apache2-mpm-worker is naturally marked as broken, and usually, the solution displayed with "e" is to uninstall apache2-mpm-worker (I don't have anything explicitly depending on it installed). In this case however, aptitude suggests to also remove all :i386 packages, for no appearant reason. Kind regards, Ralf -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY not set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.7 compiled at May 5 2012 02:05:03 Compiler: g++ 4.6.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffbb1ff000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fac4a176000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fac49f47000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fac49d1e000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fac49b19000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fac49819000) libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007fac495c6000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fac491c9000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fac48fb3000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fac48d0b000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fac48af2000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fac488d6000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fac485ce000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fac4834c000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fac48136000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fac47dae000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fac47bab000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fac479a7000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fac47796000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fac47591000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fac47388000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fac4ab04000) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3 ii libc6 2.13-32 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.2 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.6.1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-7 ii libncursesw5 5.9-7 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.11-3 ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-7 ii libtinfo5 5.9-7 ii libxapian22 1.2.8-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.6 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.09 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org