[Popcon-developers] Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:01:06PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.53
> Severity: important
> User: multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: multiarch
> 
> I just received the following mail from anacron:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> Package `libc6-i686' is not installed.
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> Package `mksh' is not installed.
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> 
> Those are multiarch packages I have installed:
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep libc6-i686
> ii  libc6-i686:i386  2.13-26  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimized]
> 
> Interestingly mksh:i386 is reduced to mksh in `dpkg -l':
> 
> ii  mksh  40.4-2  MirBSD Korn Shell
> 
> However `dpkg -l mksh' gives this:
> 
> un  mksh  <none>  (no description available)

Hello Philipp,

popcon actually uses:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${status} ${package}\n'
and
dpkg -L $pkg

What does that give on your system?

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

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