[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#686237: libnss-sss: Cannot install libnss-sss:i386 on mulitarch amd64 system

[Florian Wagner]

Package: libnss-sss
Version: 1.8.4-1
Severity: normal

I've just added i386 as a foreign architecture on my amd64 system
and tried to install libnss-sss:i386 so that my 32-bit programs
can resolve user ids.

This does not work as libnss-sss depends on perl which resolves to
perl:i386 on multiarch, which conflichts with the already installed
perl(:amd64).

Does libnss-sss really need perl? The shared library neither links
against perl nor does it seem to do anything with it:

 $ ldd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_sss.so.2 | grep -i perl
 $ strings /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_sss.so.2 | grep -i perl


Regards
Florian Wagner

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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libnss-sss depends on:
ii  libc6              2.13-35
ii  multiarch-support  2.13-35
ii  perl               5.14.2-12

Versions of packages libnss-sss recommends:
ii  sssd  1.8.4-1

libnss-sss suggests no packages.

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