Control: severity -1 important On Mon, 2026-10-19 at 13:37:37 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Control: clone -1 -2 > Control: retitle -2 dpkg: an error message mentions the old maintainer script > instead of the new one > Control: reassign -2 dpkg > > On Oct 19, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-10-19 12:24:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > dpkg: error processing package tin (--configure): > > > old tin package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit > > > status 1 > > BTW, why "old"? > > Indeed, it is the *new* maintainer script which was broken and this > made me ignore the CI failure. :-( > > How to reproduce: update a package to a new version with a failing > maintainer script.
This seems to be a regression in dpkg 1.23.0 (so Debian trixie is not affected) from commit 02c3c45c6d025004c2f0cbf37260eb828ed2a357. I'll queue a fix for the next release, which should happen this week. Thanks, Guillem
