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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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