Control: severity -1 serious On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:01:17PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > thanks > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 06:21:31PM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > Package: logtool > > Version: 1.2.8-8+b2 > > Severity: normal > > > > dpkg: warning: logtool: conffile '/etc/logtool/exclude' is not a plain file > > or symlink (= '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation') > > dpkg: error processing archive > > /var/cache/apt/archives/logtool_1.2.8-8+b2_amd64.deb (--unpack): > > unable to open '/etc/logtool/exclude.dpkg-new': No such file or directory > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/logtool_1.2.8-8+b2_amd64.deb > > I can't reproduce this, and neither can Evgeni. > > Can you provide a bit more details on how you managed to do this? If > not, I'm going to close the bug. For now, marking as normal, since an > unreproducible bug means it can't be totally useless, so it's not grave.
I'm able to reproduce it: # apt-get install logtool (or dpkg-reconfigure) debconf: Manual configuration of logtool's database? No Do you want to use the ... level regular expressions? Yes What do you want the ... level of regular expressions to do? exclude # apt-get --reinstall install logtool Preparing to unpack .../logtool_1.2.8-8+b2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking logtool (1.2.8-8+b2) over (1.2.8-8+b2) ... dpkg: warning: logtool: conffile '/etc/logtool/exclude' is not a plain file or symlink (= '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid') dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/logtool_1.2.8-8+b2_amd64.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/etc/logtool/exclude.dpkg-new': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/logtool_1.2.8-8+b2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # > Regards, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed