[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#537750: ia32-apt-get: probably an aptitude problem

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: ia32-apt-get
Version: 22
Followup-For: Bug #537750


This is probably in part an aptitude problem. When it tries to resolve
complex dependencies (on which apt usually gives up) it would get *grade
happy and upgrade/downgrade unrelated packages that do not affect the
issue at hand.

However the issue is in part that separate update invocations to convert
the package lists and to upgrade both apt and ia32-apt make it somewhat
difficult to keep everything in sync.

The last issue is that ia32-apt converts libc6 to libc6-i386 in such a
way it cannot be installed causing these annoying errors when aptitude
happens to select the converted package. I doubt that the libc6 in
unstable-i386 was uninstallable to start with. The amd64 version of the
package works fine, and so does the corresponding amd64 version of
libc6.

Thanks

Michal