[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724887: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2

Even after
# aptitude install
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

I get on my J5 machine...
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iproute{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iproute{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed