[Aptitude-devel] Bug#598485: Bug#598485: aptitude suggests to remove unrelated packages to resolve dependencies

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Version: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1
> > [...] we'll try to reproduce the issue with a more recent
> > version and with one from Debian, e.g. from Wheezy.
> >
> > So far I couldn't reproduce this on Wheezy (aptitude 0.6.8.1-2) with a
> > minimal setup: debootstrap (actually xen-tools' xen-create-image),
> > turning off install Recommends automatically, then "aptitude install
> > plasma-netbook kde-plasma-netbook kde-plasma-desktop".
> >
> > The result was sane and what I would have had expected on our precise
> > workstations:
> 
> Hi Axel
> 
> Your issue is this:
> 
>    * Multi-arch update for the problem resolver:
>      - handle conflicts without removing all foreign-arch
>        packages (Closes: #672340) (LP: #831768)
>      - correctly recognise dependencies solved by Multi-Arch:
>        foreign packages (LP: #968412)
> 
> resolved in 0.6.8.1.

Yes, noticed this in the meanwhile, too, thanks to an hint from Michal.

> I am fairly sure that Michal's original report is unrelated to this,

Yep. There was no multi-arch back then.

		Regards, Axel
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