Your message dated Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:29:24 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#666040: linux-image-3.2.0-486 has undeclared
dependency on dpkg >= 1.15.6
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regarding linux-image-3.2.0-486 has undeclared dependency on dpkg >= 1.15.6
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Package: linux-image-3.2.0-2-486
Version: 3.2.12-1
I tried to install a wheezy 3.2 kernel package on an old lenny box
because a bit of USB hardware needed a newish kernel.
This almost worked very well, with minimal packages upgraded, but I
got this error:
Unpacking linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 (from
.../linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-deb: file
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb'
contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
It seems that the problem is that the version of dpkg in lenny, 1.14.31, does
not
understand .xz. v1.15.6 is needed for that:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542160
linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 ought to declare this (or stop using xz so that it can
be
installed on very old machines, but that's probably not worth doing for this
rather
obscure case).
Wookey
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On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 03:28 +0100, Wookey wrote:
[...]
> linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 ought to declare this (or stop using xz so that it
> can be
> installed on very old machines, but that's probably not worth doing for this
> rather
> obscure case).
[...]
The dependency is satisfied by an essential package in stable, so this
is not a bug.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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