[Deborphan-devel] Bug#685024: deborphan: orphaner fails with multiarch

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.28.8
Severity: normal

After enabling multi-arch in dpkg (mostly to get wine stuff working), deborphan
/ orphaner is not working properly.

Instead of displaying just the package name as it would before, it now displays
packagename:arch.  When orphaner goes to try and remove such a package, it has
issues, at least with arch=all packages.  apt-get says it cannot find the
package name.

My best guess is that it is running apt-get remove packagename:arch, and apt-
get appears not to like that, at least for arch=all, though if it's doing that
for all packages, apt-get is OK with arch=amd64.

I would presume that stripping the arch off what's passed to apt-get remove is
dangerous, as a package could be orphaned for one arch but not another.  Unless
this is really a bug with apt-get, I guess orphaner needs to split up the
packages to be removed in any pass by architecture and run apt-get once for
each arch.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages deborphan depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-33

Versions of packages deborphan recommends:
ii  apt           0.9.7.2
ii  dialog        1.1-20120215-2
ii  gettext-base  0.18.1.1-9

deborphan suggests no packages.

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