Fwd: wajig: purge-removed doesn't work for packages with different arch

[Reuben Thomas]

I don't know if the maintainers ever saw this. Actually, this bug can be quite nasty: it can make you think when upgrading, for example, that lots of packages have to be removed (and will remove them if left to its own devices). (I often run wajig purge-orphans during an upgrade, to make sure I end up with a clean set of packages.)

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From: Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
Date: 30 October 2012 12:54
Subject: wajig: purge-removed doesn't work for packages with different arch
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>


Package: wajig
Version: 2.7.3
Severity: minor

As shown:

$ wajig purge-removed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'libibus-1.0-0' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libibus-1.0-0:i386'?

I have set severity minor because the error message makes it obvious
what has gone wrong, and easy to fix the problem manually, which
itself is likely to occur infrequently on a typical setup.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers quantal-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wajig depends on:
ii  apt          0.9.7.5ubuntu5
ii  aptitude     0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1
ii  dpkg         1.16.7ubuntu6
ii  python3      3.2.3-5ubuntu1
ii  python3-apt  0.8.7ubuntu4

wajig recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wajig suggests:
ii  alien              8.88
ii  apt-file           2.5.0ubuntu1
pn  apt-move           <none>
ii  apt-show-versions  0.19+nmu1
ii  dctrl-tools        2.22.2
ii  debconf            1.5.46ubuntu1
ii  deborphan          1.7.28.8
ii  debsums            2.0.52
ii  dpkg-dev           1.16.7ubuntu6
ii  dpkg-repack        1.37
ii  fakeroot           1.18.4-2
ii  locales            2.13+git20120306-3
pn  netselect-apt      <none>
ii  reportbug          6.4.3ubuntu1
ii  sudo               1.8.5p2-1ubuntu1
ii  vrms               1.16

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/bash_completion.d/wajig changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> I don't know if the maintainers ever saw this. Actually, this bug can be
> quite nasty: it can make you think when upgrading, for example, that lots of
> packages have to be removed (and will remove them if left to its own
> devices). (I often run wajig purge-orphans during an upgrade, to make sure I
> end up with a clean set of packages.)

[snip https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691857]

Yeah, it's an interesting one. Will have a look at some point (no ETA
though). Good that you brought this up again... I can't remember if I
ever looked at at it properly.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Interestingly, it was a one-line-fix:
https://bitbucket.org/tshepang/wajig/commits/5ced689f269f1c77c02a857943dce8456b3ba2cf.
I have uploaded the fixed package to Debian.

[Reuben Thomas]

Thanks very much.

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