Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have a 32bit package that should be installable on a 64bit machine through
the multiarch support. This package depends on others like perl5-base, python
and desktop-file-utils but it does not matter whether these are 32bit or 64bit.
So its dependencies use the ':any' suffix. But dpkg fails with the following
message:
Unpacking replacement testpkg ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of testpkg:
testpkg depends on desktop-file-utils:any.
And yet:
$ dpkg -l desktop-file-utils
...
ii desktop-file-utils 0.20-0.1 amd64 Utilities for .desktop
files
A dependency on python produces a similar error, but strangely enough a
dependency on the perl5-base virtual package works fine!
I'ĺl attach a tar file containing the source of a test package demonstrating
the issue. To build it run 'fakeroot ./build'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
ii tar 1.26-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.9.7.2
-- no debconf information
testpkg.tar.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data
