On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 2:47 PM Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > 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?
$ ls -al /var/lib/dpkg/format -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 2011-03-15 18:38 /var/lib/dpkg/format $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/format 2 Martin-Éric
