Bug still present in 14.04. All packages that provide myspell- dictionary, aspell-dictionary, ispell-dictionary or hunspell-dictionary should have "Multi-Arch: foreign" mark or you can't install libenchant1c2a:i386 on your *Ubuntu amd64.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to aspell-en in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096669 Title: should be "Multi-Arch: foreign" to satisfy deps when installing a foreign architecture pkg Status in “aspell-en” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I wanted to install coq:armel on Ubuntu 12.04 armhf system (https://answers.launchpad.net/ac100/+question/218291 ), it depended transitively on libenchant1c2a:armel, but aspell-en was an obstacle (although I have it installed in my armhf system): # apt-get install libenchant1c2a:armel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libenchant1c2a:armel : Depends: aspell-en:armel but it is not installable or myspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable or aspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable or ispell-dictionary:armel or hunspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # Can't the aspell-en package be labelled "Multi-Arch: foreign" to satisfy deps when installing a foreign architecture pkg? (A workaround could be editing /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} and /var/lib/apt/Packages*, like described in http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/60287/4319 for emacsen-common.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aspell-en/+bug/1096669/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
