Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch
 

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:27:47PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
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> Subject: Cron <root@zigo> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
> --report /etc/cron.daily )
>
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more than one installed instance

I think dpkg should just report the list of files in both packages to preserve the API.

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Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch
 

Hi,

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more than one installed instance
>
> I think dpkg should just report the list of files in both packages to preserve the API.

It's not going to happen. This interface choice has been discussed at
length. I don't want to rehash the discussion.

One parameter should not give out multiple entries in the output so you'll
have to arch qualify the Multi-Arch: same package. You have already been
pointed into the right direction. You need to use the ${binary:Package}
output of "dpkg-query -W" with a fallback to ${Package} if its output is empty.

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Bug#660712: popularity-contest broken with Multi-Arsch
 

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2012, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> > > dpkg-query: error: --listfiles needs a valid package name but
> > > 'gcc-4.7-base' is not: ambiguous package name 'gcc-4.7-base' with more
> > > than one installed instance
> >
> > I think dpkg should just report the list of files in both packages to
> > preserve the API.
>
> It's not going to happen. This interface choice has been discussed at
> length. I don't want to rehash the discussion.

Why not ? This provides backward compatibility without affecting the new interfaces.

You required popcon to use dpkg -L because you said this is the stable interface,
but now some month later, this interface is broken even though it can be easily
kept compatible.

If it does not provide a stable interface, then I should revert to direct file
access since this is significantly faster.

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