Package: aptitude-common Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When trying to install aptitude on a non-native architecture, installation fails because not suitable installation candidates are found for some dependencies, in particular for aptitude-common: arm:root / 17 # uname -m armv7l arm:root / 18 # apt-get --simulate install aptitude:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude:i386 : Depends: aptitude-common:i386 (= 0.6.8.2-1) but it is not installable Recommends: aptitude-doc-en:i386 but it is not installable or aptitude-doc:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: apt-xapian-index:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: libparse-debianchangelog-perl:i386 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I assume a simple 'Multi-Arch: foreign' would fix this ? Kind regards, and many thanks for your work on debian in general, and on aptitude in particular. Rogier. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash aptitude-common depends on no packages. Versions of packages aptitude-common recommends: ii aptitude 0.6.8.2-1 aptitude-common suggests no packages. -- 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