[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#535365: ia32-apt-get: Should drop 32-bit version of type-handling

[Daniel Schepler]

Package: ia32-apt-get
Version: 20
Severity: normal

In a pbuilder amd64 chroot, after installing ia32-apt-get and doing an apt-get 
update (unsetting DEBIAN_FRONTEND so that I could choose the "All" option in 
the debconf prompt):

frobozz:/tmp# dpkg-architecture
DEB_BUILD_ARCH=amd64
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_BUILD_ARCH_CPU=amd64
DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=x86_64
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=x86_64-linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64
DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=amd64
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=x86_64
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnu
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=x86_64-linux-gnu
frobozz:/tmp# apt-get install i386                                             
Reading package lists... Done                                                  
Building dependency tree                                                       
Reading state information... Done                                              
Note, selecting type-handling instead of i386                                  
The following NEW packages will be installed:                                  
  type-handling                                                                
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.                 
Need to get 6222B of archives.                                                 
After this operation, 69.6kB of additional disk space will be used.            
Get:1 http://ftp.egr.msu.edu sid-amd64/main type-handling 0.2.23 [6222B]       
Fetched 6222B in 0s (9674B/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously deselected package type-handling.
(Reading database ... 10982 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking type-handling (from .../type-handling_0.2.23_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up type-handling (0.2.23) ...
frobozz:/tmp# apt-get install not+amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting type-handling instead of not+amd64
type-handling is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So having a 32-bit version of type-handling available to install seems to 
defeat the whole purpose of the type-handling package.
-- 
Daniel Schepler