[Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> ping?
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Cron Daemon <root at zigo.mirbsd.org>
> Message-ID: <201204030625.q336PfbX002560 at zigo.mirbsd.org>
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> To: root at zigo.mirbsd.org
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 06:25:41 GMT
> Subject: Cron <root at zigo> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
>     --report /etc/cron.daily )
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more than one installed instance

I think dpkg should just report the list of files in both packages to preserve the API.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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