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

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

thanks for making me aware of this. It turns out that dose3 does this wrong as
well.

> > 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?

Sorry, I already filed this bug with apt without considering to reassign this
one. The new bug is #770345

Thanks!

cheers, josch