Excerpts from Sven Joachim's message of Fri Apr 06 16:23:34 +0200 2012: > reassign 667753 apt > forcemerge 665727 667753 > thanks > > On 2012-04-06 16:06 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > Package: aptitude > > Version: 0.6.6-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to replace libgd2-noxpm with libgd2-xpm (because newer > > version of a package is build with xpm, older without). > > > > The problem is that aptitude passes dpkg only packge name, not arch > > qualifier when removing the package. As config files for the foreign > > arch remain dpkg still knows about it and would not remove the native > > package without qualifier. > > > > dpkg: error: --purge needs a valid package name but 'libgd2-noxpm' is not: > > ambiguous package name 'libgd2-noxpm' with more than one installed instance > > I think this is a bug in apt, previously reported as #665727. >
Indeed, rebuilding aptitude seems to fix the problem. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
