[Bug 877681] Re: Oneric's ia32-libs has unresolved dependencies, breaks subversion

[Steve Langasek]

ok, so the culprit is shared-mime-info; for some reason apt calculated
that it would be better to install the i386 version of this package
instead of the amd64 one, despite the package being Multi-Arch: foreign
(meaning any architecture will suffice, but the native architecture is
preferred).  And shared-mime-info has to have a matching version of
libxml2, which has not been converted yet for multiarch, resulting in
the amd64 version being kicked out.

If you had already had the amd64 shared-mime-info installed before
installing ia32-libs, this probably would not have occurred.

Assigning this bug to apt, which should be more aggressive about
preferring the amd64 package versions.

** Package changed: ia32-libs (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Triaged

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Title:
  Oneric's ia32-libs has unresolved dependencies, breaks subversion

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On my clean installation of Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit I installed subversion
  using apt-get. I tested it and it works. Afterwards I install
  ia32-libs using apt-get (for a binary toolchain I use). Then I notice
  subversion no longer runs (file not found). If I run aptitude on
  another machine where I've clean-installed Oneric I see the following
  when attempting to install ia32-libs:

  Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
  100)     ia32-libs recommends ia32-libs-multiarch
  101)     libdbus-1-3 recommends dbus
  102)     libgl1-mesa-glx recommends libgl1-mesa-dri (>= 7.2)
  103)     libqt4-sql recommends libqt4-sql-mysql | libqt4-sql-odbc | libqt4-sql-psql | libqt4-sql-sqlite
  104)     sysvinit-utils recommends upstart (>= 0.6.3-4)

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