Your message dated Sat, 17 Dec 2016 01:48:42 +0000 with message-id <e1ci478-000aqb...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#844701: fixed in dpkg 1.18.16 has caused the Debian Bug report #844701, regarding dpkg-maintscript-helper: Version comparison fails for supposedly valid versions to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.14 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, It seems the bug is in dpkg 1.18.11 and above. I was suffering from some sort of broken packages. I shared my issue at http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323817/debian-strech-update-broken-seems-buggy-dpkg . It took quite some time but it seems that dpkg at least 1.18.14 is somewhat broken/buggy in its implementation. In dpkg 1.18.10 I am able to fix the broken packages. These happened a few more times. I did run a few checks http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/324151/how-to-find-out-half-configured-broken-packages-in-debian but found nothing untoward. I would update to 1.18.15 as and when it comes to testing. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.24-5 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii tar 1.29b-1.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b3 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.3.1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg changed: debug=1 no-debsig log /var/log/dpkg.log -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
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--- Begin Message ---Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.18.16 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 844...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:25:53 +0100 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg libdpkg-dev dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect Architecture: source Version: 1.18.16 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-d...@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Description: dpkg - Debian package management system dpkg-dev - Debian package development tools dselect - Debian package management front-end libdpkg-dev - Debian package management static library libdpkg-perl - Dpkg perl modules Closes: 84434 671074 844701 844955 846395 846564 847220 848378 848379 Changes: dpkg (1.18.16) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Guillem Jover ] * Add support for specifying multiple targets on «dpkg-buildpackage -T» which will be run successively. Closes: #671074 * Reject empty upstream versions in C and perl code. These are not permitted by deb-version(5), but the code was letting those through. * Use lzma_cputhreads() instead of sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) as the former is way more portable. * Automatically decrease xz encoder threads to try to not exceed available memory limits. This should alleviated the insane requirements of memory needed on 32-bit architectures with many cores, which results in more than the userspace addressable memory, when using settings such as -z9 and/or -Sextreme in dpkg-deb. Closes: #846564 * Add new dpkg --validate-<thing> commands to validate the syntax of various <thing>s, where the current list is «pkgname», «trigname», «archname» and «version». * Use the new dpkg --validate-version command in dpkg-maintscript-helper, instead of abusing the --compare-versions command to perform version validation. Closes: #844701 * Allow readlink(2) to return a size smaller than stat(2) in dpkg. Some bogus filesystems do not return the actual symlink size in st_size, which contradicts POSIX. But allowing the case where the returned size is smaller than the one used to allocate memory is harmless, although suspect. Let it through, but still print a warning so that users can install stuff but are reminded they need to get a fixed filesystem in place. This has affected at least ecryptfs in the past and now file-based encryption support in ext4 on Android N. * Add new dpkg-query virtual field source:Upstream-Version. Closes: #84434 * Perl modules: - Whitelist DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL, DPKG_ROOT, DPKG_ADMINDIR and DPKG_DATADIR environment variables in Dpkg::Build::Info. * Documentation: - State the current working directory used when running dpkg-buildpackage hooks. - Add a new ENVIRONMENT section to dpkg-gensymbols(1) and document DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL there. - Fix bogus description of --force-confmiss in dpkg(1). Regression introduced in 1.16.4. Reported by Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>. Closes: #846395 - Update dpkg-parsechangelog parser options. The options specific to the changelog parser program did not get updated when the parser got switched to be a perl module. Missed in dpkg 1.18.8. * Build system: - Enable compression libs also in automatic check mode in configure. - Honor DPKG_DATADIR again in the installed Dpkg modules. This was an explicit public interface, documented in the man page. . [ Updated programs translations ] * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848378 * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #844955 . [ Updated scripts translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). * Swedish (Martin Bagge). Closes: #847220 . [ Updated man pages translations ] * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848379 * German (Helge Kreutzmann). 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