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Hi,
2016-04-23 14:48 Christian Klein:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: normal
From time to time, I invoke a "purge" (_ key) on the "Not Installed Packages"
section in aptitude to remove any config data for packages that were removed
but not purged.
With aptitude in unstable, this gives an error "E: Cannot remove aptitude
within aptitude". With aptitude in testing (0.7.5-3), this is not the case.
I guess this is triggered by the fact that I have multi-arch configured to use
i386 and amd64 packages, and the "Not Installed Packages" section contains the
aptitude:i386 package (which, however, is obviously uninstalled, as I use the
aptitude:amd64 package).
This was because some previous complaints saying that basically aptitude
shouldn't allow to remove itself, and errors caused if doing so. I
think that it's a good idea to keep it.
Perhaps the error can be avoided in your use-case if remove/purge (and
thus, the error message) are only made effective in the case that the
package is not already removed/purged.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
