Control: reassign -1 dpkg On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:45:23PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > debconf seems to have a broken version number, failing in maintainer > scripts.
And yet 1.5.58~ is clearly a perfectly valid version number. > Preparing to unpack .../dash_0.5.8-2.3_mips.deb ... > Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash' > Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash' > Unpacking dash (0.5.8-2.3) ... > Selecting previously unselected package libdb5.3:mips. > Preparing to unpack .../libdb5.3_5.3.28-12_mips.deb ... > Unpacking libdb5.3:mips (5.3.28-12) ... > Selecting previously unselected package debconf. > Preparing to unpack .../debconf_1.5.59_all.deb ... > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: version '1.5.58~' is not valid > dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_1.5.59_all.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: version '1.5.58~' is not valid > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Reassigning to dpkg, but maybe your shell is broken or something, I don't know. At any rate it's not a debconf bug. You might try narrowing things down a bit by putting "set -x" near the top of dpkg-maintscript-helper. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
