Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.26 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I have installed my Debian system with a /boot partition on FAT16 because I have a common partition for /boot and UEFI firmware. However, installing the linux-kernel tryes to do a symbolic link as a backup measure before upgrade. Since FAT filesystems do not support symlinks the process fails and the pacakge remains unconfigured. I expect the package to install and issue a warning instead of an error, ask me what to do or I don't know. See output bellow (Romanian, sorry) ---- Unpacking linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4) over (3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4_amd64.deb (--unpack): nu se poate face legătură copie de siguranță lui „./boot/System.map-3.16.0-4-amd64” înainte de instalarea noii versiuni: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: error: subprocess lipește was killed by signal (Broken pipe) ---- ---- umber Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 1050623 512.0 MiB EF00 EFI System 2 1050624 17827839 8.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap 3 17827840 1250263694 587.7 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem ---- -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (400, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u3 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.0.9.8.2 -- no debconf information
