On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:55:28PM +0100, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> was 
heard to say:
> On 2009-11-18 12:25 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >   According to packages.debian.org, ia32-apt-get doesn't exist.  I guess
> > this is some local package you built?
> 
> No, ia32-apt-get had been in unstable for some time as a replacement for
> ia32-libs, but it has been removed because many people (including, most
> relevant, the FTP masters) considered it to be too buggy.  You can read
> the discussion in the threads starting at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00902.html and
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00955.html.
> 
> Since ia32-apt-get does not exist anymore and thus cannot be fixed to
> stop shipping this diverted /usr/bin/aptitude, the only option is to
> declare a conflict with it in the aptitude package, AFAICS.

  Yeah, I think that's exactly the right solution.  Thanks for the info
(probably I should learn to use Google before I talk :P ).

  Daniel



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