I discovered exactly this bug today while updating my Sarge machine.
This is strange as I never see this before and I don't remenber having
changed something significant. Here are my last updated package using
'ls -altr /var/lib/dpkg/info' :
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4001 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16347 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.templates
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1378 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1203 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1073 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15150 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216979 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160 2006-09-23 12:03 gdhcpd.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 185 2006-09-23 12:03 gdhcpd.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 2006-09-23 12:03 gdhcpd.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1346 2006-09-23 12:28 toolame.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 2006-09-25 22:55 nfs-kernel-server.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 977 2006-09-25 22:55 gzip.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525 2006-09-25 22:55 libgnutls11.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1148 2006-09-25 22:55 libgnutls11-dev.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 2006-09-25 22:55 libisc11.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 2006-09-25 22:55 libisccfg1.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 2006-09-25 22:55 libdns21.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 2006-09-25 22:55 libbind9-0.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236 2006-09-25 22:55 liblwres9.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2006-09-25 22:55 alsaplayer.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 2006-09-25 22:55 libalsaplayer0.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 672 2006-09-25 22:55 gdhcpd.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 299 2006-09-25 22:55 mindi-kernel.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 876 2006-09-25 22:55 toolame.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 742 2006-09-25 22:55 nfs-user-server.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4978 2006-09-26 19:50
mozilla-thunderbird.templates
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1284 2006-09-26 19:50
mozilla-thunderbird.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 878 2006-09-26 19:50 mozilla-thunderbird.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1209 2006-09-26 19:50 mozilla-thunderbird.preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 558 2006-09-26 19:50 mozilla-thunderbird.postrm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41684 2006-09-26 19:50 mozilla-thunderbird.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6545 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.templates
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 2006-09-30 12:06 openssl.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 665 2006-09-30 12:06 openssl.preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 120 2006-09-30 12:06 openssl.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27288 2006-09-30 12:06 openssl.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 2006-09-30 12:06 openssl.conffiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl-dev.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl-dev.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30394 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl-dev.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.shlibs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3866 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 739 2006-09-30 12:06 libssl0.9.7.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128451 2006-10-05 13:18 mailman.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50056 2006-10-05 13:18 libssl-dev.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 507 2006-10-05 13:18 libssl0.9.7.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17073 2006-10-05 13:18 openssl.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30210 2006-10-05 19:08 mozilla-thunderbird.list
I remember seeing the bug only while doing the late two updates, the
2006-10-05 13:18 and the 2006-10-05 19:08. The only special thing on
that machine is that it is NFS root, but I usualy don't have problem
with that (expect that I have to use user space NFS instead of kernel
space NFS for re-exporting).
Any hit how to work around this problem ?
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Jean-Christian de Rivaz
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