severity 658319 important thanks Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> (02/02/2012): > Package: whiptail > Version: 0.52.14-8 > Severity: normal > > This package is marked “Multi-Arch: same”, but the package is not > co-installable with itself. It should be marked foreign instead to > allow dependencies from other architecture packages to fulfill them.
Bumping severity since dpkg with multiarch support is now available in experimental, and soon in unstable. Here are the error messages: | The following NEW packages will be installed: | whiptail:i386 | 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 0 B/32.9 kB of archives. | After this operation, 84.0 kB of additional disk space will be used. | Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) | (Reading database ... 23212 files and directories currently installed.) | Unpacking whiptail:i386 (from .../whiptail_0.52.14-8_i386.deb) ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.52.14-8_i386.deb (--unpack): | './usr/bin/whiptail' is different from the same file on the system | configured to not write apport reports | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.52.14-8_i386.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The bug can be reproduced by adding i386 as foreign architecture on an amd64 system. Quick introduction: http://blog.mraw.org/2012/02/01/dpkg_with_multiarch/ Mraw, KiBi.
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