>>>>> "GJ" == Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes:

GJ> I guess you have tried to install this package many many times? Also
GJ> you are having this problem when installing a package not even from
GJ> unstable but from experimental! This needs fixing in the affected
GJ> package.

Maybe on a clean install one wouldn't see problems, but I even see
directories "/etc/etc/" in those messages.

GJ> Again there is no infinite loop in dpkg, the relevant script just takes
GJ> a list of files and scans for their ownership, this just takes some

Yes, it just very much appears like an infinite loop, as the differing
parts of each error messages (concerned filenames) aren't shown.

GJ> time because I'm assuming it goes over all documentation from
GJ> imagemagick-doc. Perhaps the only possible problem here is that the
GJ> error messages are not clear on what's going on, but because that should
GJ> not happen in the first place and the problem here is really in
GJ> imagemagick, this is at most minor in dpkg, and I could perhaps improve
GJ> the error reporting, I'd rather see such errors so that they can be fixed
GJ> instead of hiding them. So I'm probably just going to close this bug
GJ> again in a bit.

Please instead of closing it, reassign it to the package that caused the
errors. Thanks.

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