On 18 December 2016 at 09:27, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hi, | | since yesterday I'm not able to build any r-* packages any more in | pbuilder. I get something like: | | ... | Selecting previously unselected package r-base-core.^M | Preparing to unpack .../102-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...^M | dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty^M | dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7jWbcq/102-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):^M | subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1^M | dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty^M | dpkg: error while cleaning up:^M | subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1^M | ... | | You can probably check this when building any r-cran-* package (I just | tried r-cran-rncl if you want a certain example). Any idea what might | went wrong here?
Works for me. I just updated r-cran-rcpparmadillo as RcppArmadillo (for which I am upstream) just got a new version. Selecting previously unselected package r-base-core. Preparing to unpack .../120-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking r-base-core (3.3.2-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package r-cran-littler. Preparing to unpack .../121-r-cran-littler_0.3.1-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking r-cran-littler (0.3.1-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package littler. Preparing to unpack .../122-littler_0.3.1-1_all.deb ... Unpacking littler (0.3.1-1) ... Now, I may just be lucky and an 'sudo pbuilder update' away from breakage but it seems that some handshake been dpkg-maintscript-helper and r-base-core is broken. I would point the change vector to dpkg; package r-base has not changed in a while, and has not been touched since the R 3.3.2 release. Can you debug locally? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
