Package: apt Version: 1.4.7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
specifying an invalid architecture for apt-get download does not give an error message. Instead return value is 0 and the i386 version of the package is downloaded: $ apt-get download -o APT::Architecture=omgwtfbbq xz-utils Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 xz-utils i386 5.2.2-1.2+b1 [271 kB] Similarly, apt-get install doesn't just give a short explanation about the wrong architecture but spits out pages of missing dependencies. Cheers Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5 ii gpgv 2.1.18-6 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.7 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.18-6 ii gnupg2 2.1.18-6 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.8.7-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 pn powermgmt-base <none> ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta3
