Comment 2 for bug 312491

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: Failure to update add/ or remove programs

dpkg is behaving as promised here: that is, it's failing since the operation requested cannot be performed. It seems to me that it's the job of frontends to deal with this gracefully.

I'm reassigning this to apt, but the problem may in fact be higher up than that. Michael should be able to advise.