tag 390698 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hi!

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 18:31:20 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2006-10-02 18:22 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Hi, look at this.  Maybe it's just cosmetics, but it might also point to
> > an underlying important problem:
> >
> > Preparing to replace tex-common 0.29~bpo.1 (using 
> > .../tex-common_0.30~bpo.1_all.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement tex-common ...
> > Preparing to replace tetex-base 3.0-21~bpo.1 (using 
> > .../tetex-base_3.0-23~bpo.1_all.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement tetex-base ...
> > Preparing to replace tetex-doc 3.0-21~bpo.1 (using 
> > .../tetex-doc_3.0-23~bpo.1_all.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement tetex-doc ...
> > Preparing to replace tetex-extra 3.0-21~bpo.1 (using 
> > .../tetex-extra_3.0-23~bpo.1_all.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement tetex-extra ...
> > Setting up libpoppler-glib-dev (0.4.5-3bpo1) ...
> > Setting up tex-common (0.30~bpo.2) ...
> >
> > Setting up tetex-base (3.0-23~bpo.1) ...
> >
> > Note that in the first line, it says it is using version 0.30~bpo.1,
> > whereas when in the configure phase, it says             0.30~bpo.2.  
> 
> One explanation is that the "Preparing to replace..." message displays
> (part of) a file name in the brackets whereas the "Setting up..."
> message displays a package version.  The file name does not need to
> match the package version.
> 
> > And the second one must have been correct, because bpo.1 had an error in
> > its postinst, which would not run.
> >
> > I uploaded both 30~bpo.* versions today, and it might have to do with
> > apt-proxy running between me and the actual mirrors.  But still I think
> > this should never happen.
> 
> Hm, is it possible that you mixed up the file names when copying the
> packages and that your ~bpo.2 package inadvertently became a
> ~bpo.1_all.deb?  That would be an explanation, and really the only one I
> can think of.  Can these packages be found anywhere today?

That's my guess as well.

> In the unlikely case that you have the aptitude and/or dpkg logs still
> available, they could shed more light on the issue, but otherwise it
> might be best to just close the bug, since there's probably nothing that
> can be done about it (apart from improving dpkg's messages, which has
> already been suggested -- see #71106, for instance).

Yeah, marked now accordingly. Frank do you still have those around,
otherwise will be probably just closing in a while.

regards,
guillem




--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

Reply via email to