Package: vrms Version: 1.9 Severity: important This program makes the assertion that when a package takes more than 4 lines in the status file, then it's installed. That's surely not true because, for example, some purged packages have 5 lines: the Architecture field seems to remain after the package has been purged. (I'm not sure if other than installed_then_purged packages have 5 lines, I didn't check all of them.)
Thus, the count of installed packages may be totally wrong (for ex., vrms says I have 2457 packages on my system, but 'dpkg --get-selections | wc' or 'grep "Status: install" status | wc' both agree on 1825). Hence the statistics about non-free packages vs. installed packaged is also wrong. This bug seems to be related to #261866: purged non-free packages with more than 4 lines in the status file, packages that vrms doesn't know how to handle as they are marked as "purged ok not-installed". May be Status should be checked even for more-than-4-lines-not-non-free packages. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-s2 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Sylvain Sauvage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
