Control: tags -1 pending Control: forcemerge -1 881983 On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 12:13 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: nvidia-kernel-common > Version: 20151021+5 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > I got the following error: > > [...] > Preparing to unpack .../14-nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb > ... > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version > '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version > number > dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-uFJqP4/14- > nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb (--unpack): > new nvidia-kernel-common package pre-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version > '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version > number > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > new nvidia-kernel-common package post-removal script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 > [...] > Errors were encountered while processing: > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-uFJqP4/14-nvidia-kernel- > common_20151021+5_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, > 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- no debconf information
Looks like in compat 10 special characters are added in the generated scripts, and since nvidia-kernel-common maintscript single quotes the version they are passed down. Removing the quotes is the simple solution, will upload shortly. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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