Please check the BTS before reporting bugs. Fabio
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Martin Pitt wrote: > Package: apache > Version: 1.3.29.0.2-5 > Severity: grave > Tags: sid > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hi Debian apache team! > > After today's dist-upgrade (via dselect), I got a surprising boot > message that apache was not executable. 'dpkg -L apache' showed that > the package was essentially empty (just two or three directories and > config files), apache-common was completely empty. > > So I purged the packages and tried to reinstall them, but that is > impossible: apache depends on perl (<< 5.8.4-0), but perl is at > 5.8.4-1. I'm not sure whether this is the reason why the package was > not unpacked properly (I did not read dselect output since it exited > cleanly and did not prompt for anything). Nevertheless this dependency > makes apache uninstallable in sid. > > Thanks for sorting that out and for your efforts! > > Martin > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-grsec > Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- <user> fajita: step one <fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error log. <user> fajita: step two <fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.
