Bug#745651: even more messages, mentioning purged packages too

Even more messages, mentioning purged packages too: A == Anacron r...@jidanni.org writes: A /etc/cron.daily/dpkg: A cp: cannot stat '/var/lib/dpkg/arch': No such file or directory A tar: alternatives/php: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory A tar: alternatives/php-cgi-bin: Warning:

Bug#747370: Moving obsolete conffile ... Removing obsolete conffile

Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.9 Severity: wishlist Even though they are indeed different, the admin needs to notice the same message twice # aptitude safe-update Preparing to unpack .../alsa-base_1.0.27+1_all.deb ... Moving obsolete conffile /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf out of the way... Moving

Bug#747370: Moving obsolete conffile ... Removing obsolete conffile

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Bug#757634: dpkg --verify for all packages could print package names too

Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.10 Severity: wishlist Idea: Plain $ dpkg --verify #with no arguments is great to find all the problems on the system. However then one needs dlocate etc. to find out the package which the problem files belong to. So there should be a way to get it to tell us at the

Bug#762468: how did '(' get injected into /var/lib/dpkg/status ?

Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 How did /var/lib/dpkg/status get corrupted? $ dpkg -l dpkg-query: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 26673 package 'libmailutils4': '(installed' is not allowed for third (status) word in 'Status' field $ tail /var/log/dpkg.log 2014-09-22

Bug#762817: perhaps mention 'try again' when 'compressed data is corrupt'

Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 Severity: wishlist Whenever I encounter e.g., Unpacking libgtk-3-common (3.14.0-1) over (3.13.9-2) ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data is corrupt dpkg-deb: error: subprocess decompress returned error exit status 2

Bug#763000: --help missing -C argument

Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 Severity: wishlist $ man dpkg|grep -- -C -C, --audit [package-name...] $ dpkg --help|grep -- -C -C|--audit Check for broken package(s). that should be -C|--audit [package-name...]Check for broken package(s). P.S., $ dpkg -C

Bug#809963: think of it as a larger checksum

One might argue that it is the user's fault for mistyping file names. But let's think in term of checksums. Do we proceed further with a .deb if there is some problem with its checksum? No. Even though the checksum might refer to 1000 files, only one of which has a problem. So checking that all

Bug#809963: check that we even have all the .debs specified on the command line first

Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.4 Severity: wishlist Wouldn't it be best that # dpkg -i a.deb b.deb c.deb first be sure that we even have each deb specified on the command line before proceeding? OK, and I suppose also check that their checksums are OK. I mean doing that would never do any harm. It

Bug#825918: Bug#813546: Actually 1954 error message groups

I note a full purge and then fresh install of all these programs avoids the errors.

Bug#813546: Actually 1954 error message groups

reopen 825918 thanks There is actually 1954 error groups on my machine. A normal user would and should kill the seemingly runaway situation before hit computer locks up or disks get filled. # sort /tmp/apt_term_log.txt |uniq -c|sort -nr|head 1954 dpkg-query: package 'imagemagick' is not

Bug#825918: Bug#813546: Actually 1954 error message groups

> "GJ" == Guillem Jover writes: GJ> I guess you have tried to install this package many many times? Also GJ> you are having this problem when installing a package not even from GJ> unstable but from experimental! This needs fixing in the affected GJ> package. Maybe on a

Bug#826075: dpkg: warning: while removing iceweasel, directory '/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins' not empty so not removed

MH> This is the third time you reported this issue. Sorry. OK I will purge it from all my machines.

Bug#825897: Fix-Missing

I'm turning APT::Get::Fix-Missing back on. One little missing package ruins my "sneakernet" offline safe-upgrades, plus I get this message anyway: E: Unable to fetch some packages; try '-o APT::Get::Fix-Missing=true' to continue with missing packages.

Bug#825918: dpkg enters infinite loop upon installing some packages

Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.7 Severity: grave Please try installing this version of imagemagick. Dpkg will enter an infinite loop. # dpkg -i imagemagick_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_all.deb Selecting previously unselected package imagemagick. (Reading database ... 148492 files and directories currently

Bug#825897: horrible infinite loop upon apt-get upgrade

forcemege 825918 825897 thanks > "DK" == David Kalnischkies writes: DK> I would strongly advice against setting --fix-missing by default DK> through. The intend of this mode is really not to be set permanently. OK I'll turn it off. DK> Well, that looks like a

Bug#813426: [Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#813426: warning: /etc/alternatives/compare is dangling; it will be updated with best choice

>> BTW, you show a very long list of warning messages, did they stop by >> themselves ? If yes, I'm very curious why. Oops I'm sorry I neglected to truncate them for my bug post. No I had to use ^C to stop them.

Bug#813426: [Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#813426: warning: /etc/alternatives/compare is dangling; it will be updated with best choice

Dear ow...@bugs.debian.org, can you please truncate some of the repeated messages I accidentally forgot to truncate. >> BTW, you show a very long list of warning messages, did they stop by >> themselves ? If yes, I'm very curious why.

Bug#813179: six line not-installed entries persist in /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.4 Severity: minor We read --forget-old-unavail Now obsolete and a no-op as dpkg will automatically forget unin- stalled unavailable packages (since dpkg 1.15.4). Well my /var/lib/dpkg/status has an odd six line entry Package:

Bug#809963: check that we even have all the .debs specified on the command line first

> "GJ" == Guillem Jover writes: GJ> Sure, I can agree with the principle above, but currently it might not GJ> be possible to perform all checks that would be ideal. Those will be GJ> coming in the future piece by piece. OK.

Bug#842230: Say which database, and mention some examples of "frontend methods"

Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.10 Severity: wishlist dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 5: sphinx-common:all dpkg: warning: found unknown packages; this might mean the available database is outdated, and needs to be updated through a frontend method This should say which

Bug#914478: document when --remove equals --purge and when it doesn't

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz After: -r, --remove package...|-a|--pending Remove an installed package. This removes everything except conffiles, which may avoid having to reconfigure the package if

Bug#922410: Forgot to --forget-old-unavail on state "unknown"

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 man dpkg says: --forget-old-unavail Now obsolete and a no-op as dpkg will automatically forget uninstalled unavailable packages (since dpkg 1.15.4), but only those that do not contain user information such as

Bug#922415: Zap /var/lib/dpkg/available* and save the user four megabytes

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 Severity: minor How about removing /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available-old or at least zapping them to zero bytes. They haven't been updated in five years, and you could save the user four megabytes. OK maybe they still update on some people's systems,

Bug#922407: [PATCH] man page elucidation plus missing unknown state

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz (In fact the unknown state is the majority state of dpkg -l \* Anyway, there it is: $ dpkg -l|sed q Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold ^^^ ) --- dpkg.1 2019-01-23 20:06:39.0 +0800

Bug#927752: Mention --clear-selections actually also grows selections

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.6 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz Man page says --clear-selections Set the requested state of every non-essential package to deinstall (since dpkg 1.13.18). This is intended to be used immediately

Bug#1000964: add way to run installation scripts with sh -x

Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.9 Severity: wishlist Add a way to run /var/lib/dpkg/info/* scripts with sh -x instead of sh, without needing to repackage a package just to put an set -x at the top of a file.

Bug#1001010: man dpkg should also mention --unpack processes triggers

Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.9 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz Man page says --unpack package-file... Unpack the package, but don't configure it. If --recursive or -R option is specified, package-file must refer to a directory instead.