Bug#553632: junior-config: Missing /etc/blends/junior/junior.conf causes upgrade to fail

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

[Sorry for previous mail with full-quote - I was to quick pressing send ...]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:34:02AM -0800, Tom Epperly wrote:
> Package: junior-config
> Version: 1.16
> Severity: normal
> 
> # apt-get upgrade -u                                      
> Reading package lists... Done                                                  
> Building dependency tree                                                       
> Reading state information... Done                                              
> The following packages have been kept back:                                    
>   aptitude capplets-data eclipse-jdt eclipse-platform eclipse-rcp              
>   eclipse-source exo-utils expect expect-dev ffmpeg gcj-4.4-jre-lib            
>   gnome-control-center gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-session-bin     
>   gqview gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libboost-dev libboost-graph-dev libeet1     
>   libexo-0.3-0 libgdl-1-common libgnome-window-settings1 librpm0 librpmbuild0  
>   librpmio0 libseed0 libsql-statement-perl nautilus nautilus-dbg prelink       
>   python-soya r-base-core r-cran-boot r-cran-nlme r-cran-vr rpm samba-common   
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.                
> 14 not fully installed or removed.                                             
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.                
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?                                                 
> Setting up junior-config (1.16) ...                                            
> Debian Junior configuration file /etc/blends/junior/junior.conf is missing.    
> dpkg: error processing junior-config (--configure):                            
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255  
> ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This problem sounds very much like #550140.  Unfortunately the bug
reporter seems to have lost interest and was unable to provided the
information I needed to track down the problem.  As well as in the
science-config case I'm unable to reproduce the issue here.  I did an
installation on a stable machine, upgraded it to testing and after this
to unstable without any problem.

So I would like you to send me the following information as I requested
in the other case:

  Could you please attach the content of your whole /etc/blends?  Could
  you perhaps inject a "set -x" in the post-installation script and run it
  separately as root.  It is hard to verify the problem without this.

Kind regards and thanks for the bug report

       Andreas.

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