I agree that this isn't a 'reportbug' bug, so this note is just as an
FYI to others who are having difficulty resolving the 'reportbug'
installation problem in etch, so that they'll avoid hassling the
maintainer.
As the maintainer pointed out, the installation issue previously
documented is due to problems within (in my case) a large set of 'apt-
get' package upgrades, in particular those related to python 2.4. My
preferred solution is to rip out and reinstall the offending
packages, without also having to reinstall the many, many packages
that depend on python. AFAIK, there's no surgical method using 'apt-
get', because it keeps tripping over the hosed 'reportbug' package
install.
I succeeded using 'dpkg', like so:
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python2.5-dev
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python2.5
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python2.4-minimal
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python2.4
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python-minimal
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge python-central
> sudo dpkg --force-all --purge reportbug
'dpkg' will complain about the many packages left hanging. Ignore
them. Then:
> sudo apt-get install python2.4-minimal
There are a number of bugs and patches 'apt-get' will complain about,
but just carry on. When it's done, follow up with:
> sudo apt-get -f install
which will list a number of bugs, patches, (and in my case, mailman:
Fails to upgrade from Sarge to Etch). Answer "Y" to the install/
upgrade prompt. Finally, as a validation that all is well:
> sudo apt-get install reportbug
Voila!
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