On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > > > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but > > > 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more > > > than one installed instance > > > > I think dpkg should just report the list of files in both packages to > > preserve the API. > > It's not going to happen. This interface choice has been discussed at > length. I don't want to rehash the discussion.
Why not ? This provides backward compatibility without affecting the new interfaces. You required popcon to use dpkg -L because you said this is the stable interface, but now some month later, this interface is broken even though it can be easily kept compatible. If it does not provide a stable interface, then I should revert to direct file access since this is significantly faster. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
