On 18 December 2016 at 07:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | 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? Also: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-cran-rcpparmadillo&suite=unstable Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
