Your message dated Fri, 8 Nov 2013 18:24:34 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#729066: dpkg accepts architectures that does not exist has caused the Debian Bug report #729066, regarding dpkg accepts architectures that does not exist to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.12 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these lines *** Hi I first apologize for my shortcomings with the English I hope you understand me when i run an apt-get update It show this error Imposible obtener http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i386dpkg/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. At the end I realized that there is no architecture call i386dpkg in the Release file this architecture guess that I had mistakenly added dpkg --add-architecture i386dpkg The result is the above warnin and that not all package lists are downloaded fron repositories I think dpkg should not accept architectures that there are not Nothing but thank all the debian team effort and thank you very much -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-6.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii tar 1.26+dfsg-0.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.7.9 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 14:55:39 +0100, Félix Pizarro wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.12 > Severity: important > when i run an apt-get update It show this error > Imposible obtener http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release > Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i386dpkg/Packages' in Release > file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) > Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used > instead. > > At the end I realized that there is no architecture call i386dpkg in the > Release file > this architecture guess that I had mistakenly added > dpkg --add-architecture i386dpkg > The result is the above warnin and that not all package lists are downloaded > fron repositories > I think dpkg should not accept architectures that there are not While I agree something like this would be nice to avoid this kind of situations, the problem is that it's not possible or it would be very undesirable. dpkg does not have any knowledge of what architectures are available on the remote server being used, there might be known architectures not present there anyway. dpkg would need to be updated every time a new architecture is added, or even for privately created architectures, which would be very cumbersome. This would be too restrictive. Given the above, I'll just close this bug report. Thanks, Guillem
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