Package: viewvc Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: normal The following packages will be upgraded: viewvc 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 201kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk unstable/main viewvc 1.0.3-2 [201kB] Fetched 201kB in 0s (2231kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/viewvc/viewvc-config", line 30, in ? ['key=', 'value=', 'get=', 'section=', 'all']) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 91, in getopt opts, args = do_shorts(opts, args[0][1:], shortopts, args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 191, in do_shorts if short_has_arg(opt, shortopts): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/getopt.py", line 207, in short_has_arg raise GetoptError('option -%s not recognized' % opt, opt) getopt.GetoptError: option -c not recognized viewvc failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 (Reading database ... 42909 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace viewvc 1.0.3-1 (using .../viewvc_1.0.3-2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement viewvc ... Setting up viewvc (1.0.3-2) ...
This suggests that the config script uses something that is not working until after viewvc is upgraded. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-xen-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages viewvc depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii gawk 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-subversion 1.4.2dfsg1-2 Python bindings for Subversion ii python-support 0.5.6 automated rebuilding support for p ii rcs 5.7-18 The GNU Revision Control System ii subversion 1.4.2dfsg1-2 Advanced version control system Versions of packages viewvc recommends: ii apache2-mpm-worker [httpd] 2.2.3-3.2 High speed threaded model for Apac ii enscript 1.6.4-11 Converts ASCII text to Postscript, -- debconf information excluded -- see shy jo
