Bug#722880: /usr/bin/apt-get: Re: apt: Apt fails to solve some dependencies in a multiarch scenario.

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>]

On 30 January 2016 at 10:22, Stepan Golosunov <stepan@golosunov.pp.ru> wrote:
> 30.01.2016 в 01:15:27 +0100 Michal Suchanek написал:
>> I still cannot install arch:i386 package that depends on arch:all
>> package because apt wrongly tries to search for the arch:all package as
>> arch:i386.
>>
>> # apt-get -m  -d install libgtksourceview2.0-0:i386
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  libgtksourceview2.0-0:i386 : Depends: libgtksourceview2.0-common:i386 (>= 2.10) but it is not installable
>>                               Depends: libgtksourceview2.0-common:i386 (< 2.11) but it is not installable
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> That's exactly the expected situation given that
> libgtksourceview2.0-common package forbids installation of
> foreign-arch reverse dependencies by not providing a
> "Multi-Arch: foreign" header.
>
> Lack of that header is probably a bug in libgtksourceview2.0-common.
>

Lack of multiarch headers is probably a bug in libgtksourceview2.0 all
right. That would prevent installing the library for two archs. I
install only Arch:i386 and Arch:all package so there should be nothing
preventing the installation. Arch:all is still Arch:all.

Thanks

Michal