Debian Bug report logs - #4398
dpkg broken???

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: jimr@simons-rock.edu

Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:03:00 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>:
Bug#4398; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to jimr@simons-rock.edu:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


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

From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>
To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: dpkg broken???
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:39:45 -0400
Package: dpkg
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Version: 1.3.14


I think dpkg may be broken -- when installing dvipsk it seems to
either ignore or eat some files in the deb file.  I manually unpacked
the dvipsk.deb file with dpkg-deb --extract, and the config.ps file
was there.  Yet when I install it with dpkg -i, it either isn't
unextracted or it gets removed.  The dvipsk postinst just calls
install-info.

[lestat:/usr/lib/texmf/dvips]# dpkg -i ~debian/tex/dvipsk_5.58f-5.deb 
(Reading database ... 32822 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dvipsk 5.58f-5 (using .../debian/tex/dvipsk_5.58f-5.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dvipsk ...
Setting up dvipsk (5.58f-5) ...

[lestat:/usr/lib/texmf/dvips]# dpkg --search config.ps
dvipsk: /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps
[lestat:/usr/lib/texmf/dvips]# ls -l config.ps
ls: config.ps: No such file or directory


Information forwarded to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#4398; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer):
Extra info received and forwarded to maintainer. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 4398-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)
To: 4398-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:22:50 +0100 (CET)
This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg-iwj'. Request was from Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-iwj' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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