Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: reassign -1 gnome-terminal Control: retitle -1 gnome-terminal: Please mark as M-A:foreign
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:54:17 +0100, Maurizio Oliveri wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.9 > Severity: important > I've recently encountered this problem when installing Steam's .deb > package: in its control file ( after removing all the Ubuntu > versioning numbers ) there's written "xterm | gnome-terminal". > I have gnome-terminal installed on my system, yet dpkg returns an error > about a missing dependency for "xterm | gnome-terminal" unless xterm is > installed, so the | operator is pretty much being ignored. > > This is also proven by the fact that if I run "apt-get remove xterm" it > tries to install libutempter0:i386 and xterm:i386 along with removing > xterm, and if i run "apt-get remove xterm xterm:i386" it tries to remove > the Steam package as well. > Debian Release: 7.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (650, 'experimental'), (600, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 My assumptions here is that the steam's 3d-party package is arch i386, and given that you are using multiarch, your native arch is amd64, and you seem to have gnome-terminal:amd64 already installed, which is not marked as «Multi-Arch: foreign», installing steam's package requires a terminal emulator of the same architecture, which leaves the front-end (apt/aptitude in this case, probably) with the only choice of installing xterm (already marked as M-A:foreign), as those front-ends do not support cross-grading (which would be a suboptimal solution anyway) they do not offer to cross-grade gnome-terminal to satisfy the dependency. So I guess this bug report boils down to gnome-terminal not being marked «Multi-Arch: foreign», reassigning. The error messages that dpkg outputs on those situations are not optimal, but I've that on my TODO list to fix for 1.17.x. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
