Bug#667843: dpkg: error "ambiguous package name" during upgrade to multiarch package
affects 665727 dpkg
thanks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > dpkg: error: --configure needs a valid package name but 'libbz2-1.0' is not: ambiguous package name 'libbz2-1.0' with more than one installed instance
> [...]
> > Next I tried to purge libbz2-1.0:i386 and this did the trick, as there was
> > then only one instance of the package to configure:
>
> Good catch. Reassigning to apt.
>
> I suspect this is fixed in experimental already.
Yes. It's the reason why I'm trying to get the apt transition done ASAP.
See http://bugs.debian.org/665969
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