[Bug 817181] Re: does not indicate foreign architecture when mentioning removal of non-host architecture packages

[nukedathlonman]

Well, Aptitude can't tell the difference between the architectures - so
it's possible the packages may not have need to be removed.  I had the
same problem which aptitude wanted to blow away practically my entire
system - it wanted to remove X and KDE, and everything that relied on
them, not the i386 versions of anything, but the actual AMD64 ones I
need and use daily - when I did the distribution upgrade a few weeks ago
and received notice of my first updates a few days later...  It took me
a few hours to get that all sorted with out blowing away my system.  But
given this bug and bug 831768, I feel that Aptitude in it's current
state can be a very dangerous tool to use to use on a daily basis, which
is bad in my case as I use it because I find it's clean, easy, and very
powerful tool that keeps my system lean and mean.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to aptitude in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817181

Title:
  does not indicate foreign architecture when mentioning removal of non-
  host architecture packages

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  aptitude currently did not mention that the packages it was about to
  remove were for the architecture "i386" (while my host architecture is
  amd64). This made it slightly worrying to see it propose the removal
  of the "libc6" package.

  It would be nice if it could, like apt-get, mention the architecture
  of a package if it is foreign.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/817181/+subscriptions