libsdl1.2debian:i386 removes libsdl1.2debian

[graingert]

"<bjsnider> (libsdl1.2debian:i386) requires a small packaging change so the i386 doesn't force a chain-reaction like that"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libsdl1.2debian:i386 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 19 21:12:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libsdl1.2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-28 (22 days ago)

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

Is it because libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio conflicts with libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio, and that gets applied across arch:es?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Brandon Snider (brandonsnider)]

$ sudo apt-get install zsnes:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 zsnes:i386 : Depends: libsdl1.2debian:i386 (>= 1.2.10-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This is what happens when I try to install libsdl1.2debian:i386:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcaca-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libaudio-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.6-base:i386 libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386
  libsdl1.2debian-alsa:i386
Suggested packages:
  libasound2-plugins:i386 libasound2-python:i386 glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ffmpeg gnome-mplayer gnome-mplayer-dbg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
  libmjpegtools-1.9 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-0
  libsdl1.2-dev libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio libxine1-x mplayer2
  ubuntu-desktop virtualbox-4.0 vlc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.6-base:i386 libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386
  libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl1.2debian-alsa:i386
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 16 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,490 kB of archives.
After this operation, 121 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

It seems like apt should offer i386 replacements for every package that has to be forced out and therefore shouldn't force ubuntu-desktop out.

[graingert (tagrain)]

$ sudo apt-get install skype:i386
[sudo] password for graingert:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libasound2:i386 libdbusmenu-qt2:i386
  libxv1:i386 sni-qt:i386
Suggested packages:
  libasound2-plugins:i386
  libasound2-python:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED
  skype
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libasound2:i386 libdbusmenu-qt2:i386
  libxv1:i386 skype:i386 sni-qt:i386
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2,118 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

This is simply not true as I already have libasound2 (x64) and it is _not_ being forced out.

32 bit packages can be installed alongside 64 bit ones. Except in this case.

[Ari Wilson (ari-wilson)]

I have the same issue, installing ZSNES alongside VLC and some other games:

ariw@polymorph:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install zsnes
[sudo] password for ariw:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for ariw:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-wcf3.0-cil
  libmono-system2.0-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil xclip
  libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil libmono-system-messaging2.0-cil
  libmono-posix2.0-cil libmono-messaging2.0-cil
  libmono-system-data-linq2.0-cil libmikmod2 libmono-system-data2.0-cil
  libmono2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-webbrowser2.0-cil
  libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-accessibility2.0-cil
  libmono-winforms2.0-cil
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl1.2debian-alsa:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa
  libsmpeg0 vlc vvvvvv zachtronicsindustries-spacechem
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl1.2debian-alsa:i386 zsnes:i386
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,118 kB of archives.
After this operation, 296 MB disk space will be freed.

[David Nuñez (auledoom)]

Maybe this won't be so easy after all,

For the first step maybe libsdl-dev package should be split into libsdl-extra-something (for all arch independant scripts, docs, headers) and just keep libSDLmain.a libSDL.so in the new multiarch locations /usr/lib/$ARCHITECTURE-linux-gnu/
But then you should take care of migrating every dependy to multiarch as well.

[graingert (tagrain)]

so libsd1.2-dev-common and libsdl1.2-dev

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

This has been resolved in Debian and the updated package will require a merge: https://merges.ubuntu.com/libs/libsdl1.2/

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

This is fixed in precise, although we still lag behind Debian's SDL upstream version slightly.