Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
As you can see below my default arch is i386 but I'm using multi-arch a lot now. When I try to install emacs24:amd64 it fails due to a dependency error. Following this down I suspect that emacs24-bin-common is looking for an amd64 version of emacs24-common. elm:~# apt-get install emacs24-bin-common:amd64 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: emacs24-bin-common:amd64 : Depends: emacs24-common:amd64 (= 24.4+1-5) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. elm:~# apt-get --download-only install emacs24-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: emacs24-el emacs24-common-non-dfsg The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs24-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 12.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 64.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ jessie/main emacs24-common all 24.4+1-5 [12.8 MB] Fetched 12.2 MB in 37s (324 kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
