Bug#633396: cannot upgrade libreoffice-common (cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.4/program/.services.rdb': No such file or directory)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# maintainer doesn't seem to be interested, but the problem is well understood
# and I'm happy to fix it
owner 633396 !
tags 63396 - unreproducible moreinfo
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Hi Rene,

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 03:27:09PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Typical experimental amd64 system.  From today's upgrade:
>
> How did you do the upgrade?
>
> And what is a "typical experimental amd64 system"?

I used cupt; you can reproduce it by using dpkg directly, too.
Besides, after your explanation it's obvious in the code where the
problem is.  And the policy is very clear; "apt happens to choose an
upgrade path that doesn't trigger it" does not make a bug go away.

Anyway, I'm happy to take care of writing a fix and checking that it
fixes the problem, so I am not so inclined to attach dpkg logs etc.  I
should be able to send a fix soon.  I'll be glad to hear feedback on
it then.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,
Jonathan