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Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name"

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On 2024-03-04 13:47:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I get the following error:
> 
> cventin:~> dpkg -s libc6-dev
> dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name but 'libc6-dev' is not: ambiguous package name 'libc6-dev' with more than one installed instance

Wrong copy-paste (to match what is given below), but this is the
same error:

cventin:~> dpkg -s libnsl-dev
dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name but 'libnsl-dev' is not: ambiguous package name 'libnsl-dev' with more than one installed instance

> while this is a valid package name: with an "apt" command, I get:
> 
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>   libnsl-dev libnsl-dev:i386 libnsl2:i386 libtirpc-dev libtirpc-dev:i386
>   ^^^^^^^^^^
>   libtirpc3:i386
> [...]
> 
> The package name is listed above.

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Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-03-04 14:00 +0100
  Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-03-04 14:00 +0100
  Bug#1065429: dpkg -s: spurious error "dpkg-query: error: --status needs a valid package name" Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-03-07 04:30 +0100

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