This bug is not fixed! I just tried to upgrade from Precise to Quantal.
do-release-upgrade failed for some reason, and now dpkg fails with:
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29257 package
'odbcinst':
mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
It won't LET me purge the package, because of that error!
dpkg:
Installed: 1.16.7ubuntu6
Candidate: 1.16.7ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 1.16.7ubuntu6 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The Perl script linked in the bug description doesn't help--all it does
is tell me to purge that package with dpkg, which doesn't work!
I knew I shouldn't have tried to upgrade. Every time I upgrade from one
Ubuntu release to another, I encounter a weird problem that is worse
than the last time I upgraded Ubuntu.
The worst part of all? This bug has been on Launchpad for over 6
months, and was reported on the Debian lists last March, but it's still
not fixed, and Quantal was released like this! I've been using Ubuntu
since Warty, and it didn't used to be like this! What is happening to
Ubuntu?!
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upgrade failed: mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package
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