On 19 February 2013 03:54, Scott Ritchie <scottritc...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > I agree with the sentiment about apt, however I thought it was the > current case that if a recommended (same-arch) package isn't available > in the archive, it does get simply ignored.
Quite right, for ‘install’ and ‘dist-upgrade’ at least. Curiously this is inconsistent when ‘upgrade’, which will not upgrade a package with missing recommends. Perhaps they should be handled consistently one way or the other, prefering the safety of not installing the base package. Relaxing the behaviour in the multiarch case is probably not so useful, as then foo:foreign and foo:native will unpredictably have different capabilities due to recommends. Attached is a test case for apt attempting to capture the situation in the report. On Debian sid (apt 0.9.7.6) it does not recreate the not installable result yet, so needs some further tweaking. ** Attachment added: "test-multiarch-recommends" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123710/+attachment/3535842/+files/test-multiarch-recommends -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123710 Title: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1123710/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
