[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#708065: ia32-libs: After upgrade to Wheezy, the ia32-libs is not upgraded

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:23:00PM +0200, Arno wrote:
> Package: ia32-libs
> Version: 20130215
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
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> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
> ii  dpkg           1.16.10
> ii  lib32asound2   1.0.25-4
> ii  lib32bz2-1.0   1.0.6-4
> ii  lib32gcc1      1:4.7.2-5
> ii  lib32ncurses5  5.9-10
> ii  lib32stdc++6   4.7.2-5
> ii  lib32v4l-0     0.8.8-3
> ii  lib32z1        1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
> ii  libc6-i386     2.13-38
> 
> ia32-libs recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
> pn  ia32-libs-gtk  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last week I upgraded to Wheezy and the ia32-libs package wasn't updated. I tried to install manually with this result:
> 
> root at deepspace:~# apt-get install ia32-libs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386 but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> root at deepspace:~# apt-get install ia32-libs-i386
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package ia32-libs-i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> 
> E: Package 'ia32-libs-i386' has no installation candidate
> root at deepspace:~# 
> 
> How can I fix this dependency?
> 
> Regards,
> Arno

You should start by reading the release notes.

http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#ia32libs

MfG
	Goswin