Bug#595138: apt: multiarch installation complains about removed but not purged packages

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:42:31PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:

> mhhh. I can't reproduce this here with a simple testcase -
> such a package shouldn't be in the loop at all as it has no current
> installed version…

Hmm. I have since purged the package to make the problem go away --
reinstalling it makes the problem appear again, though:

W: Internal error, group 'snmp-mibs-downloader' has no installable
pseudo package

So the problem is probably not related to obsolete and/or uninstalled
packages, but somewhere else; sorry for the confusion.

> Could you provide
> apt-cache policy snmp-mibs-downloader

snmp-mibs-downloader:picotux:
  Installiert: 1.1
  Kandidat:    1.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1.1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/non-free amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
snmp-mibs-downloader:
  Installiert: 1.1
  Kandidat:    1.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1.1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/non-free amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> and maybe your /var/lib/dpkg/status file ?

Attached.

Thanks,
   Simon