Control: severity -1 serious Hi!
This had been reported on IRC as making the lintian jenkins job fail, but having it as bug report is always good, thanks! On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 09:13:41 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.16 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper > I am not sure about this bug's severity, it prevents software from > being installed. There is at least one report against another package, > #848413. Pretty much serious, yes. > [22/1110]mh@salida:~ $ sudo dpkg --install > /var/cache/apt/archives/dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb > (Reading database ... 42030 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb ... > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: > version string is empty > dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: > version string is empty > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb (--install): > subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: > version string is empty > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb Bah, right. I'm fixing this and rolling a quick hotfix release. And, hmm dpkg-maintscript-helper really needs a functionall test suite. :/ Thanks, Guillem
