[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#692520: libasound2-plugins multiarch dependency issues

[Michael T. Kirsch]

Package: libasound2-plugins
Version: 1.0.25-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried installing libasound2-plugins:i386 in an amd64 system, and got
this error message:

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$ sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libasound2-plugins:i386 : Depends: libavcodec53:i386 (>= 6:0.8.2-2) but it is not going to be installed or
                                    libavcodec-extra-53:i386 (>=6:0.8.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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I searched for error messages like that online, and solutions like
apt-get clean or apt-get update didn't fix anything. When I tried
installing the dependencies manually, I get errors like these:

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$ sudo apt-get install libavcodec53:i386

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavcodec53:i386 : Depends: libopenjpeg2:i386 but it is not going to
 be installed
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ sudo apt-get install libopenjpeg2:i386

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libavcodec-extra-53 : Depends: libopenjpeg2 but it is not going to be installed
  phonon-backend-vlc : Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed
                        Recommends: vlc but it is not going to be installed
  plasma-scriptengines : Depends: plasma-scriptengine-python (>= 4:4.8.4-4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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I asked on #debian on Freenode, and they suggested that this is a bug
that should be reported.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libasound2-plugins depends on:
ii  libasound2                        1.0.25-4
ii  libavcodec53                      6:0.8.4-1
ii  libavutil51                       6:0.8.4-1
ii  libc6                             2.13-35
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-4.1
ii  libpulse0                         2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate0                    0.1.8-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                      1.2~rc1-6
ii  multiarch-support                 2.13-35

libasound2-plugins recommends no packages.

libasound2-plugins suggests no packages.

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