[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798286: Bug#798286: "Package xxx is not installed, so it will not be removed" messages upon purge ~c

[Axel Beckert]

Control: unmerge 798286 724887

Hi Jidanni,

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> You are confusing
> > dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed
> messages with
> > Package libatkmm-1.6-1 is not installed, so it will not be removed
> 
> Two different bugs!

Hrm, despite they seem to have very similar semantics, they indeed
look different. Unmerging for now.

I'm though sure I've seen that dpkg warning before at work (where we
also use "aptitude purge ~c" on automatically managed machines), long
before 0.7.1-1, IIRC on trusty or wheezy.

		Regards, Axel
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