Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
After an interrupted dpkg run, any subsequent invocation fails with: dpkg: error: libc6-dev:armel <none> (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libc6-dev which has multiple installed instances This affects not only -i, --purge, --unpack but even -l or dpkg-query. The last two relevant entries of dpkg/updates (there's over a hundred entries after that, none mentioning libc6-dev) are: ,--====[ /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0005 Package: libc6-dev Status: purge ok config-files Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 8531 Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-gl...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: armel Multi-Arch: same Source: eglibc Version: 2.13-33 Provides: libc-dev Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-33), libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-33), linux-libc-dev Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev Breaks: binutils (<< 2.20.1-1), binutils-gold (<< 2.20.1-11), cmake (<< 2.8.4+dfsg.1-5), gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12), libhwloc-dev (<< 1.2-3), libjna-java (<< 3.2.7-4), liblouis-dev (<< 2.3.0-2), liblouisxml-dev (<< 2.4.0-2), make (<< 3.81-8.1), pkg-config (<< 0.26-1) Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev Description: Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. Homepage: http://www.eglibc.org `---- ,--====[ /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006 Package: libc6-dev Status: unknown ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: libdevel Architecture: armel `---- /var/lib/dpkg/status includes: ,---- Package: libc6-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 10558 Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-gl...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: eglibc Version: 2.13-33 Provides: libc-dev Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-33), libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-33), linux-libc-dev Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev Breaks: binutils (<< 2.20.1-1), binutils-gold (<< 2.20.1-11), cmake (<< 2.8.4+dfsg.1-5), gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12), libhwloc-dev (<< 1.2-3), libjna-java (<< 3.2.7-4), liblouis-dev (<< 2.3.0-2), liblouisxml-dev (<< 2.4.0-2), make (<< 3.81-8.1), pkg-config (<< 0.26-1) Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev Description: Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. Homepage: http://www.eglibc.org Package: libc6-dev Status: deinstall ok installed Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 8531 Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-gl...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: armel Multi-Arch: same Source: eglibc Version: 2.13-33 Provides: libc-dev Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-33), libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-33), linux-libc-dev Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev Breaks: binutils (<< 2.20.1-1), binutils-gold (<< 2.20.1-11), cmake (<< 2.8.4+dfsg.1-5), gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12), libhwloc-dev (<< 1.2-3), libjna-java (<< 3.2.7-4), liblouis-dev (<< 2.3.0-2), liblouisxml-dev (<< 2.4.0-2), make (<< 3.81-8.1), pkg-config (<< 0.26-1) Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev Description: Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. Homepage: http://www.eglibc.org `---- After manually appending "Multi-Arch: same" to the file in dpkg/updates (for libc6-dev:armel and for another package from the same run), dpkg let me proceed. This suggests a fix: don't remove the field until possibly some time later. (I have a btrfs snapshot of the system, in case more information is needed.) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 armel Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
