Sven Joachim <[email protected]> writes: > With dpkg from git master, apt-utils-show-package wrongly reports > "Multi-Arch:same" packages as not installed, e.g. libc6: > > ,---- > | Package: libc6 (Not installed; not known to dpkg) > | Source: eglibc > | Version: 2.13-27 > | [...] > `---- > > The reason is apparently that dpkg now arch-qualifies "Multi-Arch:same" > packages in its output: > > ,---- > | $ LANG=C dpkg -l libc6 > | Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | | > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > | |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > | ||/ Name Version Description > | > +++-===================-===================-====================================================== > | ii libc6:i386 2.13-27 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > libraries > `---- > > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00005.html > for more information.
Yeah, I guess parsing the output of dpkg -l is always going to be fragile. Probably it would be better to use something like "grep-status -s Status,Version,Architecture -P libc6 --and -FStatus installed" It's less clear to me how much work it is to make this code multiarch aware. looking at the function apt-utils-get-installed-info, it really only looks for a single installed version of a package.
