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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a 32bit package that should be installable on a 64bit machine through the multiarch support. This package depends on others like perl5-base, python and desktop-file-utils but it does not matter whether these are 32bit or 64bit. So its dependencies use the ':any' suffix. But dpkg fails with the following message: Unpacking replacement testpkg ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of testpkg: testpkg depends on desktop-file-utils:any. And yet: $ dpkg -l desktop-file-utils ... ii desktop-file-utils 0.20-0.1 amd64 Utilities for .desktop files A dependency on python produces a similar error, but strangely enough a dependency on the perl5-base virtual package works fine! I'ĺl attach a tar file containing the source of a test package demonstrating the issue. To build it run 'fakeroot ./build'. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-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 dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii tar 1.26-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.7.2 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 03:25:08 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.8 > Severity: normal > I have a 32bit package that should be installable on a 64bit machine > through the multiarch support. This package depends on others like > perl5-base, python and desktop-file-utils but it does not matter > whether these are 32bit or 64bit. That's because those packages have not been annotated yet with a proper Multi-Arch field. > So its dependencies use the ':any' suffix. But dpkg fails with the > following message: > > Unpacking replacement testpkg ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of testpkg: > testpkg depends on desktop-file-utils:any. The “:any” syntax is only relevant on “Multi-Arch: allowed” packages (but those are not allowed on the Debian archive just yet). > And yet: > $ dpkg -l desktop-file-utils > ... > ii desktop-file-utils 0.20-0.1 amd64 Utilities for > .desktop files > > A dependency on python produces a similar error, but strangely enough > a dependency on the perl5-base virtual package works fine! The virtual package “issue” is being tracked on a different bug report. Otherwise there's no real problem here, and as such I'm just closing this report. thanks, guillem
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