On 2012-03-09 05:19 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote:

> On 9 March 2012 11:16, Daniel Hartwig <mand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9 March 2012 03:09, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Package: aptitude
>>> Version: 0.6.5-1
>>> User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
>>> Usertags: multiarch
>>>
>>> A few days ago there was a situation where libgcc1:amd64 was at a newer
>>> version than libgcc1:i386, and aptitude was unable to perform a
>>> safe-upgrade for this case (the correct solution is not to do anything,
>>> which "apt-get upgrade" indeed does).
>>>
>
> Out of curiosity, do either of these commands attempt to install the
> out-of-sync packages:
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> # apt-get install libgcc1:amd64

No, because these actions would require removing the native libgcc1
package and its reverse dependencies, including libc6.  Would be
interesting to see what apt-get does if the dist-upgrade does not
require removing essential packages.

Cheers,
       Sven



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