[Aptitude-devel] Bug#697278: aptitude-common: Please make aptitude installable on non-native architectures

[Daniel Hartwig]

Rogier <rogier777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to install aptitude on a non-native architecture, installation
> fails because not suitable installation candidates are found for some
> dependencies, in particular for aptitude-common:
>
> [shell transcript]
>
> I assume a simple 'Multi-Arch: foreign' would fix this ?
>

Yes.  I have marked all binary packages with appropriate Multi-Arch
fields.  This is enough on this side, but some dependencies are not
yet updated for multiarch (such as libxapian22) so I will send some
patches their way also.

Regards