libpciaccess0:386 is uninstallable on amd64

[Michael Gratton]

I cannot install libpciaccess0:386 0.12.1-1 on amd64 due to its dependency on libc6 (>= 2.7).

Attempting to do so via apt-get or synaptic results in either an "libpciaccess0:386 is unsinstallable" error or the suggestion that every amd64 installed on the system be removed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libpciaccess0 0.12.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 2 00:47:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: libpciaccess
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (8 days ago)

[Michael Gratton (mjog)]

Oh, apologies, the reason it is uninstallable is because it appears conflict with the amd64 version of itself - both cannot be installed at the same time?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marc D. (koshy)]

libpciaccess0 is not a multiarch binary package, so libpciaccess0:i386 cannot be installed with libpciaccess0 (native).

This basically breaks i386 compatibility for amd64, as ia32libs indirectly depends on libpciaccess0:i386.

[Harrison Chapman (hchaps)]

Any idea when this will get fixed? These sort of things keep happening whenever I try to do aptitude full-upgrades and aptitude's best idea for a solution is to kill every single i386 package on my machine.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

This is also blocking installing libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 on amd64 completely breaking accelerated GL support for 32 bit apps on amd64 when using open source drivers which is used by wine, 32 bit flash, google-earth, etc. libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 depends on libdrm-intel1:i386 which depends on libpciaccess0:i386 making it uninstallable. libpciaccess0 has been tested by many people (in ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates and ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa) for over 2 months now but was only recently uploaded to debian unstable (and has since migrated to testing) in version 0.12.1-2.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

And as https://launchpad.net/~scottritchie/+archive/build-tests/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=oneiric will attest, all of its reverse dependencies will build just fine with the new, multiarch-ready package.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

libpciaccess 0.12.1-2 synced from Debian, fixing this bug.