Bug#868213: libmate-menu2:amd64: The Provides and Breaks in this package prevents the crossgrading of Mate from i386 to amd64

[Jose M Calhariz]

Package: libmate-menu2
Version: 1.16.0-2
Severity: normal

I have been doing experiments on Crossgrading of Mate and Xorg from
i386 to amd64.  The crossgrading following the instructions in
http://blog.calhariz.com/post/2017/07/12/Crossgrading-a-minimal-install-of-Debian-9
that are an adaptation from the Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading

The crossgrade fails with the message:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmate-menu2:amd64:
 libmate-menu2:i386 (1.16.0-2) breaks libmatemenu and is installed.
   libmate-menu2:amd64 (1.16.0-2) provides libmatemenu.
   
The way to exit from this situation is:
dpkg --install --force-breaks /var/cache/apt/archives/libmate-menu2_1.16.0-2_amd64.deb

Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libmate-menu2:amd64 depends on:
ii  libc6         2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.50.3-2

libmate-menu2:amd64 recommends no packages.

libmate-menu2:amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information