[Aptitude-devel] Bug#710587: aptitude: unable to purge a package

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hello Shirish

On 1 June 2013 11:29, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.9.1-1
> Severity: normal
>

Can you reproduce this with 0.6.8.2-1?  We are unable to support the
current experimental version.

> $ aptitude search gnotski
> c   gnotski                                                   -
> Klotski puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package)
>
> $ sudo aptitude purge gnotski -y
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   gnotski{p}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> D000001: deferred_remove package gnotski:all
> dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnotski which isn't installed
>

What is the output of:
$ dpkg --version && apt-cache policy gnotski && dpkg -l gnotski

Regards