Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.9
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
dpkg >= 1.13.x (at least?) comes with local diversions of
/usr/bin/md5sum.textutils to /usr/bin/md5sum
/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz
These are not correctly undiverted in the dpkg.prerm script when uninstalling
or downgrading.
'apt-get install dpkg/testing' yields
---
dpkg - warning: downgrading dpkg from 1.13.9 to 1.10.28.
(Reading database ... 95019 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.13.9 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.10.28_i386.deb) ...
No diversion `any diversion of /usr/bin/md5sum', none removed
No diversion `any diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', none removed
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.10.28_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz',
which is the diverted version of `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz'
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.10.28_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
---
I suggest the following patch to solve this.
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--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.prerm.orig 2005-06-13 16:24:40.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.prerm 2005-06-13 16:41:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
# Remove the md5sum diversion on removal or downgrade
undivert_md5sum() {
- dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/md5sum
- dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz
+ dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils
+ dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz
}
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-fdr3d.28-skas3-v8
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils [textutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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