[ubuntu-dev] Bug#717859: gdebi-core: gdebi mishandles the ':any' dependencies

[Francois Gouget]

Package: gdebi-core
Version: 0.9
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Here is how to reproduce this bug:
 * Download http://fgouget.free.fr/bugs/testdep.tar.bz2
   This is a small archive that contains a set of test, empty, Debian 
   package files along with their source.
   (run ./build to rebuild them)

 * Install the testdep-allowed_1.0-1_amd64.deb package.

 * Then run: gdebi testdep-allowed-any_1.0-1_i386.deb

# gdebi ~/testdep-allowed-any_1.0-1_i386.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done 
Building data structures... Done 
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: testdep-allowed

Yet testdep-allowed-any has 'testdep-allowed:any' as its sole dependency
so the installed amd64 testdep-allowed should satisfy it. Running dpkg
confirms this:

# dpkg -i testdep-allowed-any_1.0-1_i386.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package testdep-allowed-any.
(Reading database ... 214863 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking testdep-allowed-any (from testdep-allowed-any_1.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up testdep-allowed-any (1.0-1) ...


Note that gdebi-gtk and gdebi-kde exhibit the same problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdebi-core depends on:
ii  file           1:5.14-2
ii  python         2.7.5-2
ii  python-apt     0.8.9
ii  python-debian  0.1.21+nmu2

gdebi-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gdebi-core suggests:
ii  xz-utils  5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

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