Comment 94 for bug 831768

Hi, Daniel!

Sorry for late answer, I was not able to reach my workstation to test better new patch. What I did today:
I disabled the hack mentioned in bug description, run aptitude and it showed "Suggest 228 removals 27 keeps." That is because after last update I did (don't remember exactly if I used apt-get or aptitude) aptitude was reinstalled from official repo so patched version was replaced.
Then I used dpkg -i to install patched version. After installation I've run aptitude again and it suggested only 4 removals and 29 keeps. I decided to let it to proceed with update even being noticed that it wants to remove skype 4.0.0.7. Pressed SHIFT+1 to apply solution and warning disappeared. In general I would say that update looked as "normal" not taking in account skype and ia32-libs which were removed. The main thing I've noticed that it didn't want to remove qt-gui stuff which is necessary to get skype to work.
After update went successfully I downloaded new skype package from skype.com i386 version and installed it. Everything went OK!

So here's is *definitely improvement* for me and disabling the option in /etc/apt/apt.conf did the trick for me!
Thank you very much for your work! I'm now able to use aptitude again!