Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.13
Severity: serious
Justification: makes packages uninstallable/unremovable
Affects: autoconf-archive
Dear Maintainer,
the changelog for 1.17.13 contains:
* Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure absolute
pathnames arguments.
The problem is that now the following happens, if one tries to install
autoconf-archive:
# dpkg -i autoconf-archive_20140228-1_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package autoconf-archive.
(Reading database ... 11973 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack autoconf-archive_20140228-1_all.deb ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an
absolute path
dpkg: error processing archive autoconf-archive_20140228-1_all.deb
(--install):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an
absolute path
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
autoconf-archive_20140228-1_all.deb
It can't even be removed with normal means:
# dpkg --purge autoconf-archive
dpkg: error processing package autoconf-archive (--purge):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
autoconf-archive
One has to force the removal:
# dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq autoconf-archive
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
dpkg: warning: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
(Reading database ... 11973 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing autoconf-archive (20140228-1) ...
I'm not sure why dpkg-maintscript-helper was changed to fail when a
non-absolute symlink was used, but this change should not make it into
testing, unless all packages doing so have been fixed.
Best regards,
Andreas
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