[Multiarch-devel] Bug#770301: dpkg: fails to install second arch of Multi-Arch:same packages with Provides/Conflicts/Replaces:virtualpackage

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-11-20 16:51, Guillem Jover wrote:
> This is expected behavior in dpkg. Conflics/Breaks/Replaces get an
> implicit "any" arch qualifier, so those make the dependency
> unsatisfiable due to the Provides.

If it's intentional, this is fine.

> So if there's no other issue besides this, I'm just going to be
> closing this report.

Should this rather be reassigned to apt/aptitude to not resolve these
packages as co-installable at the first place?


Andreas