Hi! On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 14:18:51 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > reassign 604114 dpkg 1.15.8.5 > tag 604114 -moreinfo -unreproducible > thanks > > Hello Kurt, > > Kurt Roeckx [2010-11-21 22:22 +0100]: > > This only seems to happen when upgrading from the version in testing, > > or installing the version in testing. That version still has files > > in /usr/share/myspell/dicts/, 2.0-1 doesn't anymore. > > > > I added a set -x at the top of the postinst, I get: > > + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > > + [ ! ] > > + PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 > > + export PERL_DL_NONLAZY > > + [ ] > > + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-common.postinst triggered > > /usr/share/myspell/dicts > > dpkg: version '/usr/share/myspell/dicts' has bad syntax: invalid character > > in version number > > + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > > Confirmed. In squeeze, installing postgresql-common, then myspell-nl > will reproduce this. According to [1] above call of the p-common > postinst looks correct, "/usr/share/myspell/dicts" is a valid trigger > name that p-common subscribes to. It looks like debconf or dpkg itself > tries to interpret $2 as a version number even if $1 = "triggered"; > with any other valid $1, $2 is indeed a version number, so it seems > this particular case isn't handled here? > > This might also be a bug in debconf, but since the error message says > "dpkg" I reassign this to dpkg.
That specific dpkg string is coming from dpkg --compare-versions, so someone somewhere is explicitly calling that one, and thus not really a dpkg bug. Kurt could you check the call trace to see exactly who? And then reassign? thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
