Public bug reported:
After installing adobe-flashplugin on my 64-bit system (11.10) I removed all
the packages for i386 architecture. Then I purged them. After restarting the
machine, the default Ubuntu session stopped working. I found that when I purged
package libglib2.0-0:i386, dpkg deleted the file
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled. However it also belongs to
libglib2.0-0. I supposed that the library missed this file, because after
copying it back, my box started to work again.
I do not know, if it is a serious problem, but dpkg should handle these cases,
when there are packages installed for different architectures. May hard linking
the same files prevent unwanted deletion?
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
purging a package for different architecture may delete files needed
for the actual architecture
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