Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dpkg
On a 10.10 system which has been upgraded several times through the
ages, and presumably used to have the screen-profiles package installed
when it existed:
mas90@callisto:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/screen
diversion by screen-profiles from: /usr/bin/screen
diversion by screen-profiles to: /usr/bin/screen.real
screen: /usr/bin/screen
mas90@callisto:~$ dpkg -L screen-profiles
Package `screen-profiles' is not installed.
mas90@callisto:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -c screen-profiles
0
mas90@callisto:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/screen /usr/bin/screen.real
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 376032 2009-07-06 06:37 /usr/bin/screen
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 376112 2010-06-18 22:13 /usr/bin/screen.real
i.e. I'm stuck with an old (and buggy: bug #375625) /usr/bin/screen
supplied by a screen-profiles package, despite screen-profiles being
long gone.
I can work around the situation, but dpkg should never have got into
this state. When screen-profiles was removed, any diversions it put in
place should have been undone.
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/727738
Title:
dpkg keeps diversions for removed packages
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