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

[Bill Allombert]

reassign 659782 dpkg
found 659782 
retitle 659782 dpkg -L does not work for multi-arch foreign packages.
tags 659782 + experimental
quit
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:21:47AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > > So are you suggesting that dpkg should use ${binary:Package} ?
> > > Could you patch /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 161 to add binary: and check whether
> > > it works correctly ?
> > > 
> > > Or did I misunderstand something ?
> > 
> > This only helps for the libc6-i686:i386 m-a same case (but it does
> > help there).  It doesn't for the mksh:i386 m-a foreign case.
> > 
> > dpkg devs cc'ed in the hope that they can contribute why -L behaves
> > differently and how one should solve this…
> 
> This is definitely a bug in dpkg (for "dpkg -L mksh"). The default naming
> of foreign non-"multi-arch: same" packages changed and the input side was
> not adapted to cope with it.
> 
> Thanks for reporting. I will look into it later.

So I am reassigning this bug to dpkg.
 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
> 
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