Wish: Support user in selecting correct arch package

Bug #879843 reported by Gunter Ohrner
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptitude (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

In Ubuntu 11.10 x64, aptitude's GUI shows most packages "twice", while actually on entry represents the x64 and one the IA32 architecture package. There's no indication in the package list which is which, however, which makes software administration much more confusing than necessary...

Additionally, aptitude itself sometimes even seems to become confused because of "duplicate" packages during dependency resolution which makes aptitude hardly usable at all to resolve conflicts, but I'll report a separate bug about this as soon as it happens again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 22 12:19:31 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE@euro
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (5 days ago)

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Gunter Ohrner (gohrner) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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