On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:19 PM, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Take a look at bug 8840. I think this script could be generalized to include Debian. However, since the problem was Ubuntu, and not Debian, we didn't.
It's OK but I agree it does seem to be rather Ubuntu-specific at the mo.
By the way (looking at the other replies), I think it is apt-get that is breaking, as "sudo dselect install" and "sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade" are the same thing. So if this multiarch bug isn't fixed in the OS, it may bite us later no matter what we do.
You may take a look at this, they talk about wheeze and thus will bite us soon. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664893 As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy to provide a solution for the end-users (that's what 8840 is: a way of being able to provide sane instructions), but I know this is a short-term issue as we are moving forward to encouraging them to use .deb packages. Regards To+