[Aptitude-devel] Bug#731318: aptitude: keeps switching a package between architectures on safe-upgrade

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Shai,

2013-12-04 08:38 Shai Berger:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>My system is mostly x86-64; some time ago I had to install Skype,
>and for that, several ":i386" packages got installed. The packages
>in the system are managed almost exclusively by aptitude. I upgrade
>manually, almost daily, by running
>
>    sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>
>Recently, I noticed that with every safe-upgrade, I have udisks
>removed and udisks:i386 installed, or vice versa. Every single
>time, this package is toggled between the architectures.
>
>It doesn't really seems to hurt anything, but is a little annoying
>and seems redundant.

Did you keep observing this problem in recent years/releases?

..and if the answer is yes:

a) do you still use aptitude as the main package manager in your system?

b) which versions?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>