Bug#729185: failed to create /etc/dictionaries-common/words on install
reassign 683024 dictionaries-common forcemerge 729185 683024 thanks On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 06:45:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.20.3 Severity: normal /usr/share/dict/words was a broken symlink since /etc/dictionaries-common/words was never created. I tried dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common; it let me choose the american word list, but this did not cause the file to be created. [...] Finally, running select-default-wordlist did add the missing link. Looks like wamerican was installed a few hours before dictionaries-common, during initial installation of this system. My guess is that something in the trigger handling does not properly handle this case of the word list being installed first. Hi, Joey and Don, Sorry for the delay, I am having little time lately. Finally had time to look at this (and similar wamerican #683024 just merged). It is not the trigger to blame, but a change I did in 2011-03-28 trying to simplify options. I then forgot that wamerican could have been installed first and then its postinst is not run when dictionaries-common is installed. I am working in a fix. Expect a fixed package soon. Thanks for your info Ragards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#729185: failed to create /etc/dictionaries-common/words on install
Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.20.3 Severity: normal /usr/share/dict/words was a broken symlink since /etc/dictionaries-common/words was never created. I tried dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common; it let me choose the american word list, but this did not cause the file to be created. Finally, running select-default-wordlist did add the missing link. Since I use etckeeper, I can see that I first installed dictionaries-common, along with aspell, on September 3rd. That apt run created only (relevantly): dictionaries-common/ispell-default |0 emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el| 40 + I upgraded to 1.20.3 on Sep 20th. AFAICS, /etc/dictionaries-common/words was never created on this system. Looks like wamerican was installed a few hours before dictionaries-common, during initial installation of this system. My guess is that something in the trigger handling does not properly handle this case of the word list being installed first. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5+b1 dictionaries-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages dictionaries-common suggests: pn emacsen-common none pn ispell none pn jed-extra none -- debconf information excluded -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
