[Bug 879843] [NEW] Wish: Support user in selecting correct arch package

[Gunter Ohrner]

Public bug reported:

In Ubuntu 11.10 x64, aptitude's GUI shows most packages "twice", while
actually on entry represents the x64 and one the IA32 architecture
package. There's no indication in the package list which is which,
however, which makes software administration much more confusing than
necessary...

Additionally, aptitude itself sometimes even seems to become confused
because of "duplicate" packages during dependency resolution which makes
aptitude hardly usable at all to resolve conflicts, but I'll report a
separate bug about this as soon as it happens again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 22 12:19:31 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE at euro
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (5 days ago)

** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric

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Title:
  Wish: Support user in selecting correct arch package

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 11.10 x64, aptitude's GUI shows most packages "twice", while
  actually on entry represents the x64 and one the IA32 architecture
  package. There's no indication in the package list which is which,
  however, which makes software administration much more confusing than
  necessary...

  Additionally, aptitude itself sometimes even seems to become confused
  because of "duplicate" packages during dependency resolution which
  makes aptitude hardly usable at all to resolve conflicts, but I'll
  report a separate bug about this as soon as it happens again.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Oct 22 12:19:31 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LANG=de_DE at euro
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (5 days ago)

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