Hi! On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 12:40:59 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.3 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable
> After an interrupted dpkg run, any subsequent invocation fails with: > > dpkg: error: libc6-dev:armel <none> (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable > with libc6-dev which has multiple installed instances > > This affects not only -i, --purge, --unpack but even -l or dpkg-query. > > The last two relevant entries of dpkg/updates (there's over a hundred > entries after that, none mentioning libc6-dev) are: > ,--====[ /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006 > Package: libc6-dev > Status: unknown ok not-installed > Priority: optional > Section: libdevel > Architecture: armel > `---- > After manually appending "Multi-Arch: same" to the file in dpkg/updates (for > libc6-dev:armel and for another package from the same run), dpkg let me > proceed. > This suggests a fix: don't remove the field until possibly some time later. Hrm, I thought I had handled that case in the code correctly, but apparently not. :/ It's really a problem that the update log is only ever used on some interrupted runs, as that makes reliably testing it quite difficult, I should add a way to test it in the future. > (I have a btrfs snapshot of the system, in case more information is needed.) No need, and thanks for the report, will be fixed in 1.16.4, being finished right now. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
