Comment 78 for bug 831768

On 13 May 2012 03:17, Lanoxx <email address hidden> wrote:
> This is a very serious issue. I just upgraded to 12.04 and currenly I
> cannot even install wine without getting dependency errors. apt-get want
> me to resolve it by removing about 200 packages.

It is my understanding that apt-get works well in these situations --
did you mean that *aptitude* wants to remove those packages?

If you must install foreign-arch packages and aptitude gives you
grief, use another package manager.

> I vote to give this bug
> critical status.
>

While I'm certain that some people have attempted to fix this (myself
included), to my knowledge there is no one doing this currently.
Twiddling the bug status is not going to change anyone's priorities[1]
nor will it magically conjure a fix.

Aptitude's developers are volunteers. Ubuntu provides other package
managers which do not have this problem.

I suspect that "voting" with your hands by submitting a patch will be
far more effective.