Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.15 Followup-For: Bug #848413 Dear Maintainer,
I am also seeing this bug in sid. Downgrading to the testing package worked for me. I am currently putting it on hold until there is a fix confirmed. Below is the error I am seeing, dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty dpkg: error processing package tlp (--remove): subprocess installed 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: tlp E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-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 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii tar 1.29b-1.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.4~beta2 -- no debconf information
