[Aptitude-devel] Bug#757440: aptitude: wants to remove some package though dependencies are fine

[Daniel Hartwig]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed
Control: severity -1 important
Control: owner -1 !

On 8 August 2014 16:23, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.11-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I type 'U', and get for "linux-libc-dev:i386":
>
> Some dependencies of linux-libc-dev:i386 are not satisfied:
>
>
>   * linux-libc-dev:i386 breaks linux-libc-dev (!= 3.14.13-2)
>
>
> The following packages conflict with linux-libc-dev:i386:
>
>
>   * linux-libc-dev breaks linux-libc-dev:i386 (!= 3.14.15-1)
>

Hello

Thanks for the report.

This is apparently due to aptitude's incomplete multiarch support.
The program should be upgrading groups like this in lockstep, before
the problem resolver gets involved.

Will get that fixed for Jessie.

Regards