Your message dated Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:34:40 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#782714: dpkg cannot uninstall octave3.0-info which
conflicts with new dpkg version
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.24
Severity: important
When running aptitude:
Cannot upgrade dpkg from version 1.17.24 to version 1.17.25 because
the new version conflicts
conflicts with octave3.0-info (1:3.0.1-6lenny3)
And when trying to uninstall octave3.0-info, I get the following
error message:
Removing octave3.0-info (1:3.0.1-6lenny3) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing package octave3.0-info (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
octave3.0-info
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b3
ii libc6 2.19-17
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 1.0.9.7
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 19:30:00 +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.24
> Severity: important
> When running aptitude:
> Cannot upgrade dpkg from version 1.17.24 to version 1.17.25 because
> the new version conflicts
> conflicts with octave3.0-info (1:3.0.1-6lenny3)
> And when trying to uninstall octave3.0-info, I get the following
> error message:
>
> Removing octave3.0-info (1:3.0.1-6lenny3) ...
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> dpkg: error processing package octave3.0-info (--remove):
> subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> octave3.0-info
Right, although this was put in place precisely to avoid this situation
for people upgrading from a stable wheezy system to a stable jessie
system. Given that you are upgrading from testing or unstable, I think
it's "ok" to leave this issue up to the user. Because there's no easy way
to handle this otherwise, and the Conflicts just forced you to remove the
package now, but the install-info problem would have been latent anyway,
so I think I'm going to close it as it should only affect people running
testing or unstable. :/
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:58:51 +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> It is possible to work around this bug by manually editing the file
> '/var/lib/dpkg/info/octave3.0-info.prerm'
> and commenting out the line running the
> 'install-info --quiet --remove'
> command.
That's an option yes. Another could be to add a dummy wrapper, like:
,---
# touch /usr/local/bin/install-info
# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/install-info
`---
Thanks,
Guillem
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