Package: apt Version: 0.9.9.4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I'm working in a multiarch scenario where amd64 is the architecture of my machine and armhf is a foreign architecture. I found two cases where apt fails to solve the dependencies of packages even where a solution exist. First case: I was trying to crossbuild a source package A that build-depends package B:armhf where the build architecture is amd64 and the host architecture is armhf. Package B is multiarch: foreign. Apt install package B:armhf instead of B:amd64 even B being a multiarch: foreign package. IMHO, apt should install B:amd64 to solve the build-dependencies instead of B:armhf. Second case: I was trying to crossbuild a source package A that build-depends package B:any that depends package C:all where the build architecture is amd64 and the host architecture is armhf. Package B is multiarch: same and Package C is multiarch: foreign. Apt fails to solve the dependencies because it tries to install package C:armhf instead of Package C:all which is a multiarch: foreign package. IMHO, apt should install Package C:all without returning error. I'm not usually with reporting bugs. Please, be nice :-) . Thanks, Gustavo Alkmim -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4 ii gnupg 1.4.14-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.9.4 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2 ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.6.8.2-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10 ii python-apt 0.8.9 ii synaptic 0.80.2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- 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
