Control: tags -1 + trixie moreinfo unreproducible
Control: severity -1 important
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 at 18:30:17 +0100, Michał Trojnara wrote:
steam-installer is uninstallable, even though its dependency is installed.
I can't reproduce this. This succeeded, using podman to run in a trixie
container:
$ podman run --rm -it debian:trixie
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# sed -i -e 's/Components: main$/& contrib/'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
# apt update
# apt full-upgrade
# apt install steam-installer
and so did this:
$ podman run --rm -it debian:trixie
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# sed -i -e 's/Components: main$/& contrib/'
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
# apt update
# apt full-upgrade
# apt install steam-libs-i386
# apt install steam-installer
(I also have full trixie systems with this package installed and they
seem fine.)
# apt install steam-installer
Solving dependencies... Error!
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:
Unsatisfied dependencies:
steam-installer : Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3) but it is not
installable
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional
context:
Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. steam-installer:amd64=1:1.0.0.83~ds-3 is selected for install
2. steam-installer:amd64 Depends steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3)
but none of the choices are installable:
[no choices]
# dpkg -l steam-libs-i386
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================-===============-============-=========================================
ii steam-libs-i386:i386 1:1.0.0.83~ds-3 i386 Metapackage for 32-bit
Steam dependencies
I don't know how this could happen. Perhaps the apt maintainers have an
idea?
I guess maybe apt no longer allows for dependencies in other architectures.
apt does allow cross-architecture dependencies on Multi-Arch: foreign
packages, like steam-libs-i386. If it didn't, cross-compiling would be
impossible.
smcv
