Hello, whenever an upgrade fails early in the unpack (either broken preinst, corrupted archive, etc.), APT still tries to configure it and it results in a supplementary error in the upgrade log that looks like this: dpkg: error processing onboard (--configure): package onboard is already installed and configured
Apport is analyzing this error message and decides that dpkg is the culprit and the result is that there are hundreds of similar bugs reported against dpkg. I have been reassigning them as they come since a few weeks but it's getting boring very quickly. APT needs to be fixed obviously but Michael Vogt has not been able to reproduce it apparently. And then it only solves the problem for future releases and I doubt we want to fix all the already-released APT. Introducing a work-around in the already released apport seems more plausible. What do you think? Cheers, PS: An example of such a report with corrupted packages: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/774661 -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
