Bug#882330: apt: fails to upgrade M-A library package with Breaks

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Julian Andres Klode dixit:

>Well, you pinned libxml2:x32 to use 2.9.4+dfsg1-4.0tarent1, but libxml2:i386 does

Huh? I didn’t pin anything.^W^W^Wdon’t remember pinning anything.

*looks at /etc/apt/preferences*

Apparently, somehow I did. Weird. *removes lines from that file*

>not have a pin, and thus uses 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.1. Then you tell apt to install these
>conflicting versions, so that's not working, as designed.
>
>You likely want to pin both libxml2:x32 (AKA libxml2) _and_ libxml32:i386.

OK, thanks for the additional explanation.

bye,
//mirabilos
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