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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-09-09 20:36 GMT+01:00 David Kalnischkies <david at kalnischkies.de>:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:23:49AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>
>> I think that it's better to leave it closed, but is is good to confirm
>> that this issue was very likely the cause behind it.
>
> Feel free to keep the closed bug on your score card – after all you did
> the bulk of the triage work and I am not THAT desperate to win to start
> stealing done bugs. ;)
>
> I was just commenting in case you stumble over another instance of this.

Yeah, I thought that this was your intention, thanks.

I was mostly thinking aloud about leaving it open, because this is not
an isolated decision, and one faces the same dilemas with many old
bugs that are triaged -- because of the "just in case...".


> I have the feeling that apt users are trained to use "dpkg -P" for
> purging previously removed packages as apt didn't support this for quite
> a while (something like squeeze I think, so "new feature" in apt terms
> – as the bug is a caused by multiarch the bug should at least exist
> since squeeze).  Given that this "always" worked for aptitude I guess
> your users don't have the same training and hence encounter this more
> often. Case in point: This bug has a merged duplicate already.

That's the slightly strange thing -- they are from Jun 2013 and the
other from Jan 214; nothing more recent, even if it should affect many
systems that upgraded to Jessie.  (But then again, maybe there are
duplicates lurking but not merged).


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>