[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#534965: ia32-apt-get: is completely broken

[Norbert Preining]

Package: ia32-apt-get
Version: 18
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

That package was pulled in automatically by libs-i386 and it breaks
nearly everything:
- aptitude UI with upgrading does not work, redownloads everything again
  and again
- changing /etc/apt/sources.list is not carried over to whereever that
  package saves it dummy hosed sources.list (in /e/apt/{386,amd64})
- calling apt-get update from the command line (recommended in another
  bug report) finishes in a core dump
  /usr/bin/apt-get: line 46: 30757 Segmentation fault      apt-get.real --no-list-cleanup --no-download update
- telling the user *ONLY* in the NEWS file that we have to pin i386
  packages otherwise they instead of the native ones will be installed
  is *definitely* not enough. I have NOT decided to include i386 package
  repositories in my sources.list, if ia32-apt-get adds that automatically
  it has to make sure that this does not happen.

Is this a joke package? It is not April fool's day!

If you prefer I will open grave bugs for each of the above.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ia32-apt-get depends on:
ii  ia32-libs-tools               18         Tools for converting i386 debs for

ia32-apt-get recommends no packages.

ia32-apt-get suggests no packages.

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