The underlying problem is that libapt-pkg does not correctly parse these
provides. Internally, it creates a version named "baz:i386" with
architecture amd64. Of course, such a package name is invalid and thus
this version is completely inaccessible. Thus, this bug should not cause
apt to accept a broken situation as valid. Nevertheless, it prevents
using architecture qualified depends.
Closes: 777071
while (1)
{
Start = ParseDepends(Start,Stop,Package,Version,Op);
while (1)
{
Start = ParseDepends(Start,Stop,Package,Version,Op);
+ const size_t archfound = Package.rfind(':');
if (Start == 0)
return _error->Error("Problem parsing Provides line");
if (Op != pkgCache::Dep::NoOp && Op != pkgCache::Dep::Equals) {
_error->Warning("Ignoring Provides line with non-equal DepCompareOp for package %s", Package.c_str());
if (Start == 0)
return _error->Error("Problem parsing Provides line");
if (Op != pkgCache::Dep::NoOp && Op != pkgCache::Dep::Equals) {
_error->Warning("Ignoring Provides line with non-equal DepCompareOp for package %s", Package.c_str());
+ } else if (archfound != string::npos) {
+ string OtherArch = Package.substr(archfound+1, string::npos);
+ Package = Package.substr(0, archfound);
+ if (NewProvides(Ver, Package, OtherArch, Version) == false)
+ return false;
} else if ((Ver->MultiArch & pkgCache::Version::Foreign) == pkgCache::Version::Foreign) {
if (NewProvidesAllArch(Ver, Package, Version) == false)
return false;
} else if ((Ver->MultiArch & pkgCache::Version::Foreign) == pkgCache::Version::Foreign) {
if (NewProvidesAllArch(Ver, Package, Version) == false)
return false;