[Aptitude-devel] Bug#710587: aptitude: unable to purge a package

Tue Sep 8 16:45:35 UTC 2015

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On 9/8/15, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
>
>
> Hi shirish,
>
> 2013-06-01 04:29 shirish शिरीष:
>>Package: aptitude
>>Version: 0.6.9.1-1
>>Severity: normal
>>
>>Dear Maintainer,
>>I am/was trying to purge a package which has been removed (to remove
>>the configuration files which have remained behind) but haven't been
>>able to remove it.
>>
>>$ aptitude search gnotski
>>c   gnotski                                                   -
>>Klotski puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package)
>>
>>$ sudo aptitude purge gnotski -y
>>The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>  gnotski{p}
>>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
>>Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>>D000001: deferred_remove package gnotski:all
>>dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnotski which isn't installed
>>
>>Now the problem is when I do an aptitude search it shows that the
>>package has been removed as seen in the notation 'c' while searching
>>for it (as seen above) but there is something in the package which was
>>not removed.
>>
>>Can something be done about this?
>
> Is this with multi-arch enabled?  gnotski is now a transitional package,
> arch all, added on 25 May 2013 (very close to when the bug report
> happened), it must have been arch-dependent before.
>
>
> For more information, this is what happens in my system when mixing
> multi-arch packages and the arch is not specified in the command line.
> Maybe "aptitude purge ~c" (or something in the middle) missed passing
> the arch to apt/dpkg, and that's what got things confused between the
> tools to get the action done.
>
>   (removing some lines of output to make it shorter/clearer)
>
>   # aptitude install netris:i386
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     netris:i386
>   0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B/37.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be used.
>   Selecting previously unselected package netris:i386.
>   ...
>   Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_i386.deb ...
>   Unpacking netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>   ...
>   Setting up netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude purge netris
>   No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>
>   # aptitude remove netris
>   Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
>   No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>
>   # aptitude remove netris:i386
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris:i386
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be freed.
>   ...
>   Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude purge netris
>   No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>
>   # aptitude purge netris:i386
>   Package netris:i386 is not installed, so it will not be removed
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris:i386{p}
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>   ...
>   Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>   Purging configuration files for netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>
> Otherwise, with the "main" arch, I cannot reproduce this with aptitude
> 0.7.1-1:
>
>   # aptitude install netris
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     netris
>   0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B/42.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 98.3 kB will be
> used.
>   Selecting previously unselected package netris.
>   ...
>   Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking netris (0.52-9) ...
>   ...
>   Setting up netris (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude remove netris
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 98.3 kB will be freed.
>   ...
>   Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # dpkg -l netris | grep netris
>   rc  netris         0.52-9       amd64        free, networked version of
> T*tris
>
>   # aptitude purge netris
>   Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris{p}
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>   Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>   ...
>   Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
>   Purging configuration files for netris (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude purge netris
>   No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>
>   # dpkg -l netris | grep netris
>   dpkg-query: no packages found matching netris
>
>
> Same but with "aptitude purge ~c" after netris "aptitude removed":
>
>   # aptitude purge ~c
>   Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris{p}
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>   Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>   ...
>   Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
>   Purging configuration files for netris (0.52-9) ...
>
>
> Again "aptitude purge ~c", but package being netris:i386:
>
>   # aptitude install netris:i386
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     netris:i386
>   0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B/37.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be used.
>   Selecting previously unselected package netris:i386.
>   ...
>   Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_i386.deb ...
>   Unpacking netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>   ...
>   Setting up netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude remove netris:i386
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris:i386
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be freed.
>   ...
>   Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>   # aptitude purge ~c
>   Package netris:i386 is not installed, so it will not be removed
>   The following packages will be REMOVED:
>     netris:i386{p}
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>   Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>   ...
>   Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>   Purging configuration files for netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
>
>
> So I am not sure about what was wrong at the time, but I think that this
> bug is not present anymore.
>
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>
>

Dear Manuel,
I would suggest you just close the bug, it's too far in the back now.

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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