Bug#690242: apt thinks (some) installed packages are not installed.

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Enno,

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Enno Deimel <enno.vet@gmx.net> wrote:
> Thus aptitude finds a lot of unmet dependencies that actually aren't unmet.
> And so aptitude thinks, that 119 packages are broken on my system, and it can't
> resolve dependencies.
> [ and the same problem with apt-get ]

can you attach your /var/lib/dpkg/status file to the bugreport?
(preferable compressed; might be >2 MB uncompressed)

It contains information of which packages you have installed and in
which version. If you don't want to expose this to the general public
feel free to mail it privately to me.


I suspect that these "broken" packages have no architecture. We "fixed"
that in 0.9.7.5 as APT disagreed with dpkg previously on that matter
which makes system now broken which seemed to be okay previously.
Does dpkg print any warning? Try: dpkg --audit


Best regards

David Kalnischkies