Hi! On Sun, 2022-05-29 at 09:07:25 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.8 > Severity: normal
> On a host running Testing, I got the message below this morning: > > Unpacking dpkg (1.21.8) over (1.21.7) ... > Setting up dpkg (1.21.8) ... > dpkg: warning: unknown dpkg database file /var/lib/dpkg/format is not a > misplaced alternative state... leaving as is > dpkg-db-backup.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not > starting it. > No amount of googling told me what the line about /var/lib/dpkg/format > means or whether this is something to worry about. This probably needs > to be documented, especially if it's expected to appear during an > upgrade from Bullseye to Bookworm. This file is really not supposed to be there, and was not the target of that check, which was added to fix a very short-lived mess up with dpkg 1.21.0, so it should not affect bullseye users, but might catch this kind of unrelated breakage, so I'm considering keeping the check part (not the u-a fixing part) and integrating it properly into «dpkg --audit» or similar. The only format file expected to be present in the dpkg db is /var/lib/dpkg/info/format, but certainly not on the db root. What are the contents for that file? Thanks, Guillem
