Re: dpkg behavior while changing a foreign package from arch:any to arch:all (and v.v.)

2012-02-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> I am not sure through if this is really a bug in dpkg, given that arch:all is >> to be interpreted as arch:native in multiarch, so on an amd64 system a >> flip from arch:amd64 to arch:all is not really a flip (and therefo

Re: dpkg behavior while changing a foreign package from arch:any to arch:all (and v.v.)

2012-02-14 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 01:56:02 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Sometimes packages change their arch from arch:any to arch:all (or v.v.). > This used to be no problem for packages where any was the native arch and > this is still the case, but if it is a foreign arch dpkg refuses to install > the

Re: dpkg behavior while changing a foreign package from arch:any to arch:all (and v.v.)

2012-02-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I am not sure through if this is really a bug in dpkg, given that arch:all is > to be interpreted as arch:native in multiarch, so on an amd64 system a > flip from arch:amd64 to arch:all is not really a flip (and therefore works) > while arch:i386 to

dpkg behavior while changing a foreign package from arch:any to arch:all (and v.v.)

2012-02-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi list of dpkg-glory, Sometimes packages change their arch from arch:any to arch:all (or v.v.). This used to be no problem for packages where any was the native arch and this is still the case, but if it is a foreign arch dpkg refuses to install the new arch:all version with the following error