** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon)

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Title:
  purging a package for different architecture may delete files needed
  for the actual architecture

Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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?

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