Trying to remove GNOME3 PPA results in segmentation fault due to missing package

[Alin Andrei]

When I try to purge the ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 PPA, ppa-purge segfaults because it can't find a pacakge libgnome-desktop-3-7 for Raring.

Here's the output:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-raring.list
Updating packages lists
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Release 'raring' for 'libgnome-desktop-3-7' was not found
[ ERR] Writing extended state information
/usr/sbin/ppa-purge: line 179: 10907 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $APTALT $APTARG install $REINSTALL
Warning: Something went wrong, packages may not have been reverted

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ppa-purge 0.2.8+bzr57
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 3 17:12:18 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-30 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ppa-purge
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-12 (50 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alin Andrei (nilarimogard)]

This continues to occur in Trusty with any PPA...:

[ ERR] Writing extended state information
/usr/sbin/ppa-purge: line 179: 14877 Segmentation fault $APTALT $APTARG install $REINSTALL
Warning: Something went wrong, packages may not have been reverted

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

Thanks for the report. That will be apt-get or aptitude crashing, not much can be done without a backtrace though