Package: debconf Version: 1.5.50 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" on my system. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? See previous question. * What was the outcome of this action? The process halted with the following error message: dpkg-query: error: --status 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 Use --help for help about querying packages. * What outcome did you expect instead? All my packages to be reconfigured without errors popping up. Upon investigation I noticed the following: # dpkg-query --list gcc-4.7-base Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii gcc-4.7-base:a 4.7.3-3 amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection ii gcc-4.7-base:i 4.7.3-3 i386 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection # dpkg-reconfigure gcc-4.7-base dpkg-query: error: --status 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 Use --help for help about querying packages. /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: gcc-4.7-base is not installed # dpkg-reconfigure gcc-4.7-base:amd64 # echo $? 0 It seems that "dpkg-reconfigure -a" somehow needs to take the architecture into account when determining which packages to configure. Regards, Peter -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii perl-base 5.14.2-21 Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.9.8 pn debconf-i18n <none> Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> pn debconf-utils <none> ii dialog 1.1-20120215-3 pn libgtk2-perl <none> pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> pn libqtcore4-perl <none> pn libqtgui4-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> ii perl 5.14.2-21 -- debconf information: debconf-apt-progress/preparing: * debconf/frontend: Dialog debconf-apt-progress/title: * debconf/priority: low debconf-apt-progress/info: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org