Package: gnats Version: 4.1.0-0 Severity: important Hi,
when I try to install gnats, it fails on the preinst script (/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst): austin:~# apt-get install gnats gnats-user gnatsweb Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gnats gnats-user gnatsweb 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. Need to get 1308kB of archives. After unpacking 3537kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.no.debian.org unstable/main gnats-user 4.1.0-0 [434kB] Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org unstable/main gnats 4.1.0-0 [818kB] Get:3 http://ftp.no.debian.org unstable/main gnatsweb 4.00-1 [56.0kB] Fetched 1308kB in 14s (90.7kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package gnats-user. (Reading database ... 111081 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gnats-user (from .../gnats-user_4.1.0-0_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gnats. Unpacking gnats (from .../gnats_4.1.0-0_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 15: Syntax error: "(" unexpected dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnats_4.1.0-0_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Selecting previously deselected package gnatsweb. Unpacking gnatsweb (from .../gnatsweb_4.00-1_all.deb) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnats_4.1.0-0_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) austin:~# -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=no_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gnats depends on: ii debconf 1.4.48 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii exim4 4.50-5 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light 4.50-5 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon pn gnats-user Not found. ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
