[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#537700: Bug#537700: ia32-apt-get: cannot install wine

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:

>> Have you compared the binary-i386/Packages and binary-amd64/Packages
>> files on www.lamaresh.net? There just might not be the same versions
>> in the i386 one as there are in amd64.
>>
> As is the case with most packages wine is first built for i386 and
> later for amd64 so the i386 packages should come earlier.
>
> I checked the Packages file and it contains a range of wine packages
> between the 1.1.16 and 1.1.26 versions but ia32-apt-get only shows
> 1.1.21.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal

Oh, I see what is going on. There are multiple versions of the same
package (wine) in a single Packages file. The mangling programm parses
the Packages file into a map of package name to all its infos so you
only get the last entry. I will have to fix that. Needs to use a
multimap instead.

MfG
        Goswin