Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.9 Severity: serious dpkg fails to install if base-passwd is not configured and does not declare a pre-dependency against. At this time, no /etc/passwd or /etc/group exists, as base-passwd builds them in its postinstall script.
| Unpacking dpkg (from .../archives/dpkg_1.13.9_i386.deb) ...
| chown:
| `root:adm': invalid user
|
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.9_i386.deb
(--install):
| subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
This violates against policy 3.5, paragraph 4:
| Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and
| configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must
| specify a Pre-Depends entry for the package.
Anyway, a predependency is impossible as base-passwd is not installable
without a configured dpkg.
| Unpacking base-passwd (from .../base-passwd_3.5.9_i386.deb) ...
| dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.9_i386.deb
(--install):
| subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Bastian
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