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deborphan package

  1. Bug #940379
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 940379

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CarstenHey (c.hey) wrote : Re: [Bug 940379] [NEW] deborphan returns packages that are already uninstalled

I just discussed and debugged this bug with Jean-Baptiste via IRC.

* Jean-Baptiste Lallement [2012-02-24 15:25 -0000]:
> After running this command deborphan still show the packages even if
> they are already uninstalled

The i386 variants of the packages were still installed. The actual bug
is a human interface error, shared by dpkg in multiple places.

In my opinion, deborphan should be adapted after dpkg has been changed
to include a consistent and releasable command line interface. Being
consistent to an inconsistent dpkg interface that might change soonish
isn't a worthwhile goal.

There is an other multiarch related bug in deborphan, it displays
orphaned packages that are installed on multiple architectures once per
architecture (without any architecture postfix).