Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
(cc'ing debian-dpkg@ as this possibly is a problem for any dpkg user) On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: So it would seem to me the arch-qualifying logic in apt is not right, it really only ever needs to arch-qualify if: * dpkg supports

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: clone -1 aptitude [ CCing aptitude due to the clone, please see the bug report for more details, also about it probably deserving to be serious. ] On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 13:53:47 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:26:00PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: So it would seem to me the arch-qualifying logic in apt is not right, it really only ever needs to arch-qualify if: * dpkg supports --assert-multi-arch AND * the package is Multi-Arch:same Because M-A:same packages are

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 13:53:47 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: So it would seem to me the arch-qualifying logic in apt is not right, it really

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-09-03 21:05:06 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Control: clone -1 aptitude [ CCing aptitude due to the clone, please see the bug report for more details, also about it probably deserving to be serious. ] The clone still isn't in the BTS while there are more recent bugs than 2012-09-03

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: clone 686346 -2 Control: reassign -2 aptitude Control: retitle -1 apt: Should not arch-qualify arch-less packages on dpkg calls Control: retitle -2 aptitude: Should not arch-qualfy arch-less packages on dpkg calls On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 01:41:36 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On

Processed: Re: Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: clone 686346 -2 Bug #686346 [apt] dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state Bug 686346 cloned as bug 686626 reassign -2 aptitude Bug #686626 [apt] dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml,

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 3 September 2012 19:53, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Otherwise we need to clone this to aptitude (as it does some direct dpkg calling on its own as far as I know) and whatever other dpkg front-end assumed that it could arch-qualify everything in a multi-arch

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-08-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.8 Severity: serious I did the following: ay:~ sudo apt-get install --purge debian-archive-keyring debian-faq debian-goodies debianutils deborphan desktop-file-utils dialog dict dict-foldoc dict-wn dictd dictionaries-common dictzip doc-base docbook-defguide-

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-08-31 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 14:17:46 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.8 Severity: serious apt-get started to remove packages, but for docbook-mathml, dpkg said that it wasn't installed: [...] dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove docbook-mathml which isn't

Processed: Re: Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-08-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: reassign -1 apt Bug #686346 [dpkg] dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state Bug reassigned from package 'dpkg' to 'apt'. No longer marked as found in versions dpkg/1.16.8. Ignoring request to alter fixed

Bug#686346: dpkg is wrong about the install state of docbook-mathml, making the system in inconsistent state

2012-08-31 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: reassign -1 apt Hi! [ APT maintainers, the quick summary is that on an apt removal run, dpkg fails notifying an installed package is not installed, please see the bug report for more details and attached files, etc. ] On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 16:43:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On