Debian Bug report logs - #18028
scanning package dir breaks install

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@newton.physics.arizona.edu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: scanning package dir breaks install

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:54:37 -0700 (MST)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.20 

(broken with earlier releases as well)

	If the Packages file is missing, dselect offers to
scan the packages for control files.  If I do this, then an error
something like,
	"-e  no file name on line 12"  occurs during installation and
no packages can be installed.
	If the Packages file from the archive is used, this does not
happen.
	I am using the hamm distribution.

G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ     http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Message #10 received at 18028@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: 18028@bugs.debian.org

Subject: confirmation of bug existence...

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:55:23 -0400

Can you confirm this bug report please, with the latest dpkg.

Summary: scanning package dir breaks install

Thanks,
  Ben

Message #19 received at 17897-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>

To: 1399-done@bugs.debian.org, 13187-done@bugs.debian.org, 17877-done@bugs.debian.org, 17897-done@bugs.debian.org, 21330-done@bugs.debian.org, 46747-done@bugs.debian.org, 52919-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: these bugs have all been fixed in the latest dpkg (1.6.9)

Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:25:13 +0100

Hi people,

These bugs you have reported have all been fixed in the latest dpkg
package, version 1.6.9.

     * #1399: dselect error handling not consistent
     * #6007: dselect pbm.

Dselect now displays a message saying that the database is inaccessible or
that it is locked, asks for <enter>, and returns to the main menu
afterwards.

     * #13187: --quiet|--verbose on update-alternatives don't do
       anything.

Verbosity ($verbosemode) has been implemented in update-alternatives.

     * #17877: dpkg: 'help' gets annoying after a while

There is a `--expert' command line option for dselect that turns off
automatic help messages.

     * #17897: dpkg: dselect core dumped
     * #18028: scanning package dir breaks install
     * #18484: dpkg: "internal error" in dselect
     * #18540: dpkg: unhelpful error message (invalid control file)
     * #22649: dselect crashes

This was an old bug in the "disk" access method, and it seems to have been
fixed long ago.

     * #21330: dpkg: link and use problems on non-snprintf platform

The snprintf usage in that file was fixed.

     * #46747: dpkg: [hurd] start-stop-daemon

This Hurd patch was applied.

     * #52919: dpkg: Dselect main menu title line incorrect (has %s,
       printf problem?).

This %s was fixed.

(Wichert, dpkg maintainer, has told me I may close these bug reports instead
of him)

Thanks for reporting.

-- 
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name

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