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-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
index c6326abf1..c16005e38 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ pkgCache::PkgIterator pkgCache::FindPkg(const string &Name) {
if (found == string::npos)
return FindPkg(Name, "native");
string const Arch = Name.substr(found+1);
+ /* Beware: This is specialcased to handle pkg:any in dependencies as
+ these are linked to virtual pkg:any named packages with all archs.
+ If you want any arch from a given pkg, use FindPkg(pkg,arch) */
if (Arch == "any")
return FindPkg(Name, "any");
return FindPkg(Name.substr(0, found), Arch);