dpkg bug (was: Missing: sqlite packages)

[Martin Maney]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:43:35AM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> libsqlite0 is in warty, presumably in support of the python bindings. 

I think this may explain some things that have confused me before. 
dpkg --list appears to behave inconsistently in warty.  A few samples
(headers omitted):

maney at dop3 ~ $ dpkg --list \*emacs\*

un  emacs          <none>         (no description available)
ii  emacs21        21.3+1-5ubuntu The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-co 21.3+1-5ubuntu The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture 
ii  emacs21-common 21.3+1-5ubuntu The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture 
un  emacs21-el     <none>         (no description available)
un  emacs21-nox    <none>         (no description available)
un  emacsen        <none>         (no description available)
ii  emacsen-common 1.4.15         Common facilities for all emacsen.
un  xemacs-support <none>         (no description available)

Shows both installed and uninstalled packages as I would expect (but
why does it show packages which are, as far as I know, not-installed,
as unpacked?  hmmmm...)

Here's the one that led me astray just now:

maney at dop3 ~ $ dpkg --list \*sqlite\*

ii  libsqlite0     2.8.13-3       SQLite shared library
ii  python-sqlite  0.4.3-2        Python interface to SQLite
ii  python2.3-sqli 0.4.3-2        Python interface to SQLite

No sign of the uninstalled but available packages here.  But they do
exist, of course:

maney at dop3 ~ $ sudo apt-get -s install libsqlite-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  sqlite-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsqlite0-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libsqlite0-dev (2.8.13-3 Ubuntu:warty)
Conf libsqlite0-dev (2.8.13-3 Ubuntu:warty)

This looks like Debian bug #275983, which has just today been
reassigned to dpkg.

BTW, I tried buggyzilla again, and it tossed up a mess of irrelevancies
on a search for "dpkg".  Is there some trick I've overlooked to get it
to search by package?  I get so annoyed with it that I could be
overlooking something obvious.  ;-(

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