libicu-dev and libicu-dev:i386 conflict with each other

[ugemkow]

Release is bionic (18.04.1)

When trying to install libicu-dev and libicu-dev:i386 together in bionic, the conflict with each other.

It is expected that these two libs can be installed together in one system.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ugemkow (ulrich-gemkow)]

Is there any progress on this? Waiting for upstream to solve the bug (see mail thread) may take more time then Bionic is even maintained. Currently this bug (and #1772512) prevents Bionic to be usable even for simple multi-arch development work because important dev-libs can not be installed. Thanks.

[Steven R. Loomis (srl-icu-project)]

> upstream to solve the bug

By upstream this sounds like (as I understand it) it's the ICU consumers that need to be updated to not use icu-config, you shouldn't be waiting on ICU itself. I just want to clarify what you mean, because I'm not aware of any blocker in ICU. (ICU shipped https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/13 in version 63.1).

[ugemkow (ulrich-gemkow)]

Thanks for answering. You are correct, ICU is fine, sorry for being too short.

The proplem are the packages using ICU. My current understanding is that a
solution for debian-unstable is on the way but it is to me unclear when this will
land in Ubuntu 18.04.

Currently wine cannot be compiled in Ubuntu 18.04 for 32-bit apps (and these
are most apps) because of this bug (and #1772512).

Thanks again!