[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#536526: Bug#536526: ia32-apt-get: package installable with aptitude

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:

> Package: ia32-apt-get
> Version: 22
> Followup-For: Bug #536526
>
>
> Since the gtk library is perfectly installable with ia32-aptitude there
> is something clearly broken in ia32-apt-get.
>
> Or perhaps it is relevant that I tried to install the -dev package
> instead of the plain lib package which would be different kind of
> breakage.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal

Aptitude and apt-get use different problem resolvers and it can happen
that they find different solutions. I even found that aptitude will
sometimes ignore the pining and install a package that doesn't have
the highest pin while apt-get will never do that. So it is totaly
possible that aptitude finds a solution to install something that
apt-get will refuse to install.

Interesting to see would be why apt-get doesn't want to install the
dependencies. The "will not be installed" always means there is a
problem further down the dependency chain. And then compare that with
the solution aptitude found. But I guess it is too late for that now.

MfG
        Goswin