[Bug 1070672] Re: Architecture: all packages no longer treated as implicitly Multi-Arch: foreign

[Steve Langasek]

The change in 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu7 refers to cross-*build*-dependencies.
Arch: all packages are not implicitly M-A: foreign for dependencies.

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

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

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Title:
  Architecture: all packages no longer treated as implicitly Multi-Arch:
  foreign

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “apt” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid
Status in “apt” source package in Raring:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  on an amd64 quantal system

  sudo apt-get install ecere-dev
  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:
   ecere-dev:i386 : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf:i386 but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  
  apt-cache show fonts-freefont-ttf | grep Architecture
  Architecture: all

  
  This functionality was added in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/0.8.16~exp12ubuntu7 in precise and dropped at some point in quantal.

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