Control: forcemerge 910732 -1

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 07:16:43PM +1030, John Pearson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's not a bug. Architecture: all packages need to explicitly declare
> that they are usable by foreign architectures by setting Multi-Arch: foreign.
> 
> >  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.
> 
> vim-common is not Multi-Arch: foreign.

Thanks for the analysis.  It's already fixed in git, but various
upstream issues are blocking an upload.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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