dselect installs only dependecies, but not the directly selected packages

[Aron Ujvari]

Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 server

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

# apt-cache policy dselect
dselect:
  Installed: 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
  Candidate: 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 1.16.1.2ubuntu7 0
        500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When I select a package in dselect which has some dependecies, after selecting the dependecies and the package itself I expect that "Install" should install all of them. But in 12.04 only the dependecies are installed, the directly selected packages not. In dselect the directly packages remains in "marked to install" state, but not installed.

Probably a multiarch problem, beacuse the dependencies installed usually i386 packages not amd64 ones. Directly selected packages (without dependencies) also installed as i386 packages instead of amd64 packages though I selected not the ":i386" version.

[Aron Ujvari (xanco)]

Probably https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/879324 is the same problem.