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Android GUI for BotBrew
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error retrieving information about package #18

Open jyio opened 12 years ago

jyio commented 12 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?

from the package list, tap on a package item

What is the expected output?

information about the package, and the opportunity to install/remove/upgrade it

What do you see instead?

"error retrieving information about package"

Additional information about the bug:

This does not happen every time. It usually occurs right after bootstrapping, and disappears after relaunching the app and refreshing the package list.

jyio commented 12 years ago

This might happen if the SQLite database ever becomes out of sync with the apt/dpkg database. If one tries to operate on a package that apt/dpkg does not know about, there's a problem.