[Bug 2100775] Re: python3-minimal wants to install twice when installing amd64 and arm64 packages

[Alexandre Bique]

Thank you for your time.

I disagree though.
I think apt is making bad decisions here, and having to pass python3:amd64 to force the right one to be installed is a workaround for a bug in my book.
Maybe it isn't a python issue, but a bug nevertheless and apt's error message is terrible.

You can certainly expect many other users to hit this problem and loose
time.

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Title:
  python3-minimal wants to install twice when installing amd64 and arm64
  packages

Status in python3-defaults package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When adding the ports repository to cross compile from amd64 to arm64,
  some arm64 dependencies tries to install python3-minimal:arm64 which
  conflicts with the already installed python3-minimal:amd64.

  I suspect this is a packaging mistake as 22.04 didn't have this issue
  and I've noticed this in 24.04.

  I believe some packages should have a virtual dependency on
  python3-minimal without specifying which architecture it uses right?

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