Bug#695352: apt: incorrect behavior/documentation concerning foreign architectures for sources.list / apt-get update

2012-12-31 Thread Samuel Bronson
Well, those strange Duplicate sources.list entry warnings don't seem to happen anymore with apt 0.9.7.7, and the file is downloaded sure enough, but installation still fails in exactly the same way. However, this probably isn't a bug: take a look at the documentation for the arch setting,

Bug#695352: apt: incorrect behavior/documentation concerning foreign architectures for sources.list / apt-get update

2012-12-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.6 Severity: normal In order to get i386 packages from unstable on my amd64 machine, I added the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list according to what the sourceslist(5) man page says: deb [ arch=i386 ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free