Bug#865300: tex-common: check for texlive-base ambiguous in /usr/sbin/update-language
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Norbert Preining wrote:
That is something that looks extremely suspicious! I haven't seen
any texlive-base:amd64 package.
The oldest version - and I know all of them since I packaged all of them -
is texlive-base_2005 which was already arch=all:
http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2005.dfsg.3-1_all.deb
How on earth did you manage to have an entry like this???
Actually I'd rather like to know myself. It appears in /var/lib/dpkg/status,
an entry like this:
Package: texlive-base
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Architecture: amd64
Unseen: no
State: 1
Dselect-State: 1
Remove-Reason: 0
I don't know if it is possible to retrace how something like this crept into
the dpkg status database, anyway I would not know how to do it. However, the
"Dselect-State: 1" line may hint that this may have been caused by me using
dselect (instead of some more modern interface) on a multi-arch system?
Perhaps back when dselect did not actually support multi-arch properly?
Just trying to guess.
Thanks for acting on this anyway, even if it may actually affect only me...
Bye
Giacomo
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