Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name"

2024-03-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 04:25:03 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-03-07 03:34:08 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > "apt-cache show libc6-dev" also lists this package. > > > > apt behaves differently, this has been also a known discrepancy, but > > then they operate in general

Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name"

2024-03-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-03-07 03:34:08 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > "apt-cache show libc6-dev" also lists this package. > > apt behaves differently, this has been also a known discrepancy, but > then they operate in general differently when it comes to their CLI > arguments anyway. The difference is bad for

Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name"

2024-03-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-03-04 13:47:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I get the following error: > > cventin:~> dpkg -s libc6-dev > dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name but 'libc6-dev' is > not: ambiguous package name 'libc6-dev' with more than one installed instance Wrong copy-paste (to

Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name"

2024-03-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: dpkg Version: 1.22.5 Severity: important I get the following error: cventin:~> dpkg -s libc6-dev dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name but 'libc6-dev' is not: ambiguous package name 'libc6-dev' with more than one installed instance while this is a valid package name: