[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718453] Re: apt does not download dep11 files for foreign architectures and appstream cannot find applications for these archs.

2018-01-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
apt does what it is told – appstream configures apt to download only the files for the native architecture, so there is no sensible action to be taken by apt and hence this task invalid. If "$(NATIVE_ARCHITECTURE)" in the apt.conf file shipped by appstream is changed to "$(ARCHITECTURE)" apt will

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1126949] Re: xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-quantal dependency problem with steam:i386/steam64 & libgl1-mesa-dri

2013-02-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1130419 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130419 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1130714 apt doesn't handle multi-arched provides properly ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1130419 apt resolver doesn't do sensible things when

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1123710] Re: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

2013-02-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
That "apt-get upgrade" behaves this way as it wants to be VERY careful and breaking a recommendation is not a safe operation. Consider situations in which A=1 and B=1 are installed and A recommends B >= 1. Now A=2 enters the archive with B >=2 as recommendation. Upgrading A now would mean we break