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

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> writes:

> 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.

Do not use apt or aptitude at all. Just use ia32-apt or
ia32-aptitude. It does everything already.

> 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.

That is an issue with amd64 being out of sync on its libc6 and
aptitude ignoring pining (or you don't having any). I'm working on
preventing it from causing trouble but for now it will cause an
uninstallable libc6-i386 for a few hours every time libc6 is uploaded
(which isn't that often). It is not really different from
libfoo-common being incompatible with libfoo till the buildds catch
up.

> Thanks
>
> Michal

MfG
        Goswin