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--- Begin Message ---Package: automake Version: 1:1.10.1-3 Severity: important The automake package in current lenny fails to install on my system (mainly etch, but with quite some lenny packages installed using pinning). During installation, the following error message occurs: ------------------- Setting up automake (1.10.1-3) ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing automake (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: automake E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up automake (1.10.1-3) ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing automake (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: automake ------------------- Downgrading to etch's automake resolves the problem. Upgrading dpkg to lenny does not resolve the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (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/bash Versions of packages automake depends on: ii autoconf 2.61-4 automatic configure script builder ii autotools-dev 20080123.1 Update infrastructure for config.{ automake recommends no packages. automake suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1:1.17-1 Thanks, closing as unreproducible. * Carsten Allefeld ([email protected]) wrote: > Thanks for getting back to me on this, but no, I don't have the > problem now. It is possible it was somehow related to the pinning; I > know have a pure testing system installed. Best, > Carsten > > > On 25 January 2015 at 08:05, Eric Dorland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Control: tags -1 unreproducible > > > > Sorry for not getting to this earlier. I don't think anyone else > > experienced this issue. Are you still seeing this problem? > > > > * Carsten Allefeld ([email protected]) wrote: > >> Package: automake > >> Version: 1:1.10.1-3 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> > >> The automake package in current lenny fails to install on my system (mainly > >> etch, but with quite some lenny packages installed using pinning). > >> During installation, the following error message occurs: > >> > >> ------------------- > >> Setting up automake (1.10.1-3) ... > >> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. > >> dpkg: error processing automake (--configure): > >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > >> Errors were encountered while processing: > >> automake > >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > >> A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > >> Setting up automake (1.10.1-3) ... > >> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. > >> dpkg: error processing automake (--configure): > >> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > >> Errors were encountered while processing: > >> automake > >> ------------------- > >> > >> Downgrading to etch's automake resolves the problem. > >> > >> Upgrading dpkg to lenny does not resolve the problem. > > -- Eric Dorland <[email protected]> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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