[Popcon-developers] Bug#660712: Foreign-architecture packages break popularity-contest

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:41:31AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.53
> Severity: important
> 
> The cron job failed today with:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> Package `linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64' is not installed.
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> 
> I have the amd64 build of linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 installed on an i386
> system, and dpkg requires this to be named as
> 'linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64:amd64'.

Hello Ben,

Did you try to do
dpkg -L linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64:amd64 

> I think popularity-contest should query the architecture of each package
> and when it is not 'all' or the native architecture then add the
> architecture-qualification when naming the package to 'dpkg -L'.  This
> would retain backward-compatibility with older versions of dpkg, though
> maybe not where a foreign package has been installed with
> --force-architecture.

Yes, but currently this does not work, see bug #659782, which this bug is
probably a duplicate.

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

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