On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 19:40:38 +0000, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.9 > Severity: important
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > amd64 system trying to install an i386 package required for multiarch setup > of Wine > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > dpkg -i > * What was the outcome of this action? > error > * What outcome did you expect instead? > install > > *** End of the template - remove these lines *** > > root@host:~# LANG=C dpkg -l xserver-common keyboard-configuration > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description > +++-=========================-=================-=================-======================================================== > ii keyboard-configuration 1.87 all system-wide > keyboard preferences > ii xserver-common 2:1.12.4-3 all common > files used by various X servers > root@host:~# LANG=C dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.12.4-3_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 318831 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.4-3 (using > xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.12.4-3_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-core ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-core: > xserver-xorg-core depends on xserver-common (>= 2:1.12.4-3). > xserver-xorg-core depends on keyboard-configuration. > > dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-core (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Processing triggers for libglx-nvidia-alternatives ... > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > xserver-xorg-core > You can see that dependencies are installed, but dpkg refuses to > install xserver-xorg-core That's as expected as per the current spec, arch:all packages are treated as arch:native, so the dependencies are not fulfilled. For now (at least) those packages would need to be marked M-A:foreign to be able to install a foreign xserver-xorg-core, so not a bug in dpkg. What I don't really understand is why you need to install xserver-xorg-core:i386 to be able to install wine:i386? Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
