> Which leads me to wonder if multiarch-support is actually correct in being M-A:foreign.
It is, though the reason isn't altogether obvious. The reason it was made M-A: foreign was to break what was otherwise a dependency loop for adding foreign architectures: libc6 Depends: libgcc1 Pre-Depends: multiarch-support Depends: libc6. Since the whole purpose of multiarch- support was to ensure that libraries for your primary arch were not disappeared out from underneath the linker during the transition to multiarch, we don't care about multiarch-support for any except the primary architecture... you can't possibly install the foreign-arch multiarch-support package *before* transitioning to multiarch, and if you do it *afterwards* it no longer matters. Indeed, now that the transition is complete (since wheezy has released with multiarch-support), we could update debhelper to no longer add the multiarch-support Pre-Depends in unstable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1185896 Title: apt makes wrong resolver choice when foreign arch repo included To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1185896/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
