Package: apt Version: 1.4.8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have a number of i386 and amd64 systems, mostly running amd64 kernels and with support for both architectures in dpkg/apt. When attempting to crossgrade an i386 systyem to amd64, I ran into a ton of trouble that seems to boil down to this. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Attempting to install a foreign arch package that depends on an "all" architecture package fails, as apt looks for a copy of the "all" arch package that is explicitly built for the same arch as the package I'm installing. * What was the outcome of this action? For instance, on an amd64 system: # apt-get install vim-tiny:i386 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: vim-tiny:i386 : Depends: vim-common:i386 (= 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u1) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Simlarly, trying to install vim-tiny:amd64 onm an i386 system fails because apt can't find "vim-common:amd64". In both cases, "vim-common:all" is already installed. * What outcome did you expect instead? apt should recognize that "vim-common:all" satisfies the dependency. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Sandbox ""; APT::Sandbox::User "_apt"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-headers-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-headers-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-extra-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-extra-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-signed-image-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-signed-image-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-headers-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-headers-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-backports-modules-.*-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-backports-modules-.*-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-tools-4\.9\.0-5-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-tools-4\.9\.0-7-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^postgresql-"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages ""; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image-extra"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-signed-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "gnumach-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-modules"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-kernel"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-backports-modules-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-tools"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "contrib/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "non-free/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections ""; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "contrib/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "non-free/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Periodic ""; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0"; APT::Update ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true"; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "[ ! -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged || true"; APT::Archives ""; APT::Archives::MaxAge "30"; APT::Archives::MinAge "2"; APT::Archives::MaxSize "500"; APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "amd64"; APT::Architectures:: "i386"; APT::Compressor ""; APT::Compressor::. 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