Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Please remove packages selected for deinstall on 
Multi-Arch version skew

(fixing a typo in the retitle)

On 2016-12-04 04:13:47 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
> Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Please remove packages seclected for deinstall on 
> Multi-Arch version skew
> 
> [ I'm actually a bit undecided whether this is normal or wishlist in dpkg
>   itself, see below. ]
[...]
> So, this seems like a new kind of feature to me. Also the frontends
> would need to handle the current dpkg anyway when doing upgrades, so
> it seems this needs to be handled in frontends right now no matter
> what?

Then a new bug should be opened against the frontends. Since this
can put the system in a broken state (and I suppose that this can
also affect stable with bad luck or due to an attack, as there is
no guarantee that two arch's are in sync), I suppose that this
should be grave.

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