Your message dated Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:19:06 +0100
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and subject line Closing assert() related bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #52087,
regarding dpkg: main/processarc.c:814: process_archive: Assertion
`otherpkg->clientdata->istobe == itb_normal || otherpkg->clientdata->istobe ==
itb_deconfigure' failed.
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.4
Severity: normal
See transcript. After removing rstart and rsh-client, it worked.
(Reading database ... 57395 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace heimdal-lib 0.2l-1 (using heimdal-lib_0.2l-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement heimdal-lib ...
dpkg: considering removing telnet in favour of heimdal-clients ...
dpkg: yes, will remove telnet in favour of heimdal-clients.
dpkg: considering removing ftp in favour of heimdal-clients ...
dpkg: yes, will remove ftp in favour of heimdal-clients.
dpkg: considering removing rsh-client in favour of heimdal-clients ...
rsh-client is not properly installed - ignoring any dependencies on it.
dpkg: yes, will remove rsh-client in favour of heimdal-clients.
Preparing to replace heimdal-clients 0.2l-1 (using
heimdal-clients_0.2l-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement heimdal-clients ...
dpkg: /home/wichert/sources/build/dpkg-1.6.4/main/processarc.c:814:
process_archive: Assertion herpkg->clientdata->istobe == itb_normal ||
otherpkg->clientdata->istobe == itb_deconfigure' failed.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux ulysses 2.2.12 #7 Mon Sep 27 01:09:52 CEST 1999 i586
unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
hi libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
hi libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling
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Hi!
So, I'm not a big fan of closing bugs where it's unknown whether they
have been fixed or not. The problem with this set of reports, is that
they are pretty much unactionable. :/
What I've done in dpkg 1.19.1, has been to change all assert()s from the
dpkg codebase into internerr() calls, which means we should be getting
slightly better diagnostics from now on, if any of this ever happen
again.
So by closing these, I'm hoping to close things that have arleady been
fixed, even if accidentally, *and* to prompt any new occurrence to be
filed again as a new report with the additional information.
Thanks,
Guillem
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