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Bug#774873: Circular dependency in java-headless packages

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From: "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:08:42 +0000
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 I installed
openjdk-7-jre:i386 on an amd64 system and for some reason
openjdk-7-jre:amd64 has been pulled as well.

That's probably because of this dependency cycle: multiarch treatsarch:all packages as the native architecture(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages),i.e.

openjdk-7-jre:i386 -> ca-certificates-java:all <-> openjdk-7-jre:amd64