Bug#845280: apt: useless path given in failed install messages

2016-11-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 06:50:34AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Until recently, the path given was to /var/cache/apt/archives/ where > .deb files are actually kept. I see they are now copied to > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-iwKqmD/ and prefixed by ordinal numbers, but that > temporary directory ceases

Bug#845280: apt: useless path given in failed install messages

2016-11-21 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: apt Version: 1.3.1 Severity: normal Hi! When installation of a package fails, recent apt makes dpkg print useless paths in the error message: dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-iwKqmD/4-libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite