Bug#670607: dpkg --configure fails with multiarch, interpreting those as ambiguous package names

2012-04-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: serious To update a package that is available both as amd64 and i386 on my machine, dpkg fails as in Setting up libc-bin (2.13-30) ... (Reading database ... 290169 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6:i386 2.13-27 (using

Bug#670607: dpkg --configure fails with multiarch, interpreting those as ambiguous package names

2012-04-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 670607 apt 0.8.15.10 # making the bug more visible to avoid dups severity 665727 important forcemerge 665727 670607 quit Hi Steffen, Steffen Moeller wrote: To update a package that is available both as amd64 and i386 on my machine, dpkg fails as in [...] dpkg: error: --configure