Comment 4 for bug 964303

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Michael Milligan (milli) wrote :

Yeah, looks like this may be an issue in dpkg...

# strings /usr/bin/dpkg | grep is\ not\ in
conffile '%s' is not in sync with other instances of the same package
  %.250s is not installed.
  Package %s which provides %s is not installed.
  Package %s is not installed.

# dpkg -S /usr/bin/dpkg
dpkg: /usr/bin/dpkg

# dpkg -l dpkg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu5 Debian package management system