[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724887: yes maybe it's the lack of :i386

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

$ set iproute
$ grep -A 1 Package:\ $1$ /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: iproute
Status: deinstall ok config-files
$ set libasan0
$ grep -A 1 $1$ /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: libasan0
Status: deinstall ok config-files
# aptitude search ~c
c   iproute                                                       - transitional dummy package for iproute2
c   libasan0                                                      - AddressSanitizer -- a fast memory error detector
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iproute{p}  libasan0{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 14 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 <-----!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Reading database ... 122321 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libasan0:i386 (4.8.2-19) ...
Purging configuration files for libasan0:i386 (4.8.2-19) ...

All I can say is that dpkg -l and the above show an :i386 attached,
that's the only difference I see.

I don't know how to read /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin to see if there are
some secrets there. Hmm. apt-cache dump shows no states stored.