Bug#932752: apt-get dist-upgrade fails on missing locales

Package: apt Version: 1.4.9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when upgrading a fresh install of Stretch to Buster (German localization) and having a Gnome desktop environment, libpam0g:amd64 fails to configure due to missing locales: Preparing to unpack .../libpam0g_1.3.1-5_amd64.deb ... Unpa

Bug#932752: apt-get dist-upgrade fails on missing locales

Control: reassign -1 libpam0g On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:16:54PM +0200, Jo Drexl wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 1.4.9 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > when upgrading a fresh install of Stretch to Buster (German > localization) and having a Gnome desktop environment, libpam0g:amd6

Bug#932752: apt-get dist-upgrade fails on missing locales

Julian, I don't see how this can be a pam bug, and you didn't include any explanation when you reassigned. The failure here is due to libpam0g calling awk in its postinst, and awk not having all of its libraries unpacked, making awk unusable. However, libpam0g does not depend on awk because packa