libicu48 is not multiarch enabled

[Jan Rathmann]

Hello,

if I try to install the libicu48:i386 package on my amd64 precise installation, apt wants to remove a huge list of essential core packages, including Unity, Nautilus, LibreOffice, Software-Center, etc. . For the exact list of packages to be removed see the attached output of apt-get.

Kind regards,
Jan

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libicu48:i386 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: b37fefbc97df4ba6a5f7edd504648fe4
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Tue May 1 09:44:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
SourcePackage: icu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Aleksander Palyan (freeday)]

Guess it was fixed in Quantal Quetzal. Can anybody backport it?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

libicu is multiarched in quantal and up, but not -dev package.

[arbuntu (arb)]

The original poster reported the problem with "precise" and so did Palyan.
Why would Ledkovs mark it as Fix Released when the fix hasn't been released.
I am also using precise and suffering this pain :-(

[Nick Guletskii (nickguletskii200)]

Please remove the "Fix Released" status from this bug report. It is NOT fixed in precise.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Targetting to Precise, marking triaged. Buf is fixed Quantal onwards.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

@arb @nickguletskii200

By default, bug task is tracking the bug status in the latest development release. To open the bugs against stable releases they need to be nominated for that series, like it now has been done for "Precise" series. In the future, please read about bug statuses and what they mean in Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status and related pages from the Bug Squad.

[Nick Guletskii (nickguletskii200)]

@xnox

Thank you and sorry for not reading the bug status meanings.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release