Control: forcemerge 844701 -1
On 2016-12-02 18:30 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dpkg
>
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:45:23PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> debconf seems to have a broken version number, failing in maintainer
>> scripts.
>
> And yet 1.5.58~ is clearly a perfectly valid version number.
>
>> Preparing to unpack .../dash_0.5.8-2.3_mips.deb ...
>> Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash'
>> Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
>> /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash'
>> Unpacking dash (0.5.8-2.3) ...
>> Selecting previously unselected package libdb5.3:mips.
>> Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3_5.3.28-12_mips.deb ...
>> Unpacking libdb5.3:mips (5.3.28-12) ...
>> Selecting previously unselected package debconf.
>> Preparing to unpack .../debconf_1.5.59_all.deb ...
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: version '1.5.58~' is not valid
>> dpkg: error processing archive
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_1.5.59_all.deb (--unpack):
>> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: version '1.5.58~' is not valid
>> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>> subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>
> Reassigning to dpkg, but maybe your shell is broken or something, I
> don't know. At any rate it's not a debconf bug. You might try
> narrowing things down a bit by putting "set -x" near the top of
> dpkg-maintscript-helper.
This seems to be the same problem as #844701[1], there are some more
tips from Guillem how to debug the problem.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844701
