QApt

qapt-deb-installer mishandles dependencies on multiarch=foreign packages

Bug #1205530 reported by Francois Gouget on 2013-07-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	QApt	Unknown	Medium	kde-bugs #330446
	qapt (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Here is how to reproduce this bug:
* Download http://fgouget.free.fr/bugs/testdep.tar.bz2
   This is a small archive that contains a set of test, empty, Debian
   package files along with their source.
   (run ./build to rebuild them)

* Install the testdep-foreign_1.0-1_amd64.deb package.

* Then run:
qapt-deb-installer testdep-foreign-detault_1.0-1_i386.deb

qapt-deb-installer will refuse to install that package, claiming that:

Status: Error: Cannot satisfy dependencies

Yet testdep-foreign-default has 'testdep-foreign' as its sole dependency. Given that the 'testdep-foreign' package is a multiarch=foreign package it can satisfy dependencies for all architectures and thus should satisfy the testdep-foreign-default dependency. Running dpkg confirms this:

$ sudo dpkg -i testdep-foreign-default_1.0-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package testdep-foreign-default.
(Reading database ... 214865 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking testdep-foreign-default (from testdep-foreign-default_1.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up testdep-foreign-default (1.0-1) ...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: qapt-deb-installer 2.0.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 27 00:00:33 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (88 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: qapt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Francois Gouget (fgouget) wrote on 2013-07-26:

Dependencies.txt Edit (15.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (319 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote on 2014-01-22:

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

Changed in qapt (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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In KDE Bug Tracking System #330446, Francois Gouget (fgouget) wrote on 2014-01-26:

* Install the testdep-foreign_1.0-1_amd64.deb package.

* Then run:
qapt-deb-installer testdep-foreign-detault_1.0-1_i386.deb

qapt-deb-installer will refuse to install that package, claiming that:

Status: Error: Cannot satisfy dependencies

Reproducible: Always

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2014-01-27

Changed in qapt:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

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In KDE Bug Tracking System #330446, Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel) wrote on 2018-11-11:

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2018-11-11

Changed in qapt:
status:	New → Incomplete

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In KDE Bug Tracking System #330446, Andrew-crouthamel (andrew-crouthamel) wrote on 2018-11-21:

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2018-11-21

Changed in qapt:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Francois Gouget (fgouget) wrote on 2019-01-16:

This bug is still present in qapt-deb-installer 3.0.4-0ubuntu1.

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In KDE Bug Tracking System #330446, Francois Gouget (fgouget) wrote on 2019-01-16:

This bug is still present in qapt-deb-installer 3.0.4-0ubuntu1.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2019-01-16

Changed in qapt:
status:	New → Unknown

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Frode Haugsgjerd (froh) wrote on 2020-10-23:

This also affects me,qapt-deb-installer 3.0.5-1ubuntu1 (Ubuntu Studio 20.10). Reproducible with latest google-earth-pro-stable_current_amd64.deb

qapt-deb-installer should at a minimum print some useful info on the terminal. All I see is:

QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h"
QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all"
QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v"

The binary has no verbose or debug option.