[Aptitude-devel] Bug#663134: aptitude: safe-upgrade fails on libgcc1 version skew

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-03-09 04:16 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote:

> On 9 March 2012 03:09, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.5-1
>> User: multiarch-devel at 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).
>>
>
> You are correct, those packages should not be considered upgradable.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.  Fixing these multi-arch issues is of
> top priority.  Consider this one under investigation.

Thanks a lot for the work you have already put into multiarch support,
the progress in that area since the 0.6.5 release looks really nice. :-)

>> I have refrained from running "aptitude update" since then to be able to
>> reproduce the problem and file this bug report.
>
> You can record the state using aptitude-create-state-bundle.

Of course, silly me.

> That will contain enough info to reproduce it at a later date.

Hopefully it does, the experience in #655483 was not so great.  Would
you be interested in that bundle (size ~35 Megabyte) ?

Cheers,
       Sven