[Bug 541438] Re: "apt-get purge" Selects another package when the requested package is not installed, but is provided by another package.

[Daniel Hahler]

Could not reproduce it on 13.10 anymore: I have tried to purge
php5-mhash, while php5-common was installed.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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Title:
  "apt-get purge" Selects another package when the requested package is
  not installed, but is provided by another package.

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  I have tried purging "php5-mhash", which has been removed in Lucid
  (via Conflicts).

  "apt-get purge" selected php5-common instead (which now provides php5-mhash) and wanted to purge this package!
  This error also applies to "apt-get remove", it will select php5-common instead of php5-mhash.

  Apt-get should handle this the same way as any non-installed package, i.e. currently it would say the package is uninstalled and cannot get purged therefore (which is bug 244598).
  But in the end, it should just purge the given package, just like "dpkg -P" would do.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Mar 18 19:57:25 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu3
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
  SourcePackage: apt
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

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