Package: ttf-takao-gothic Version: 003.02.01-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
I tried to upgrade today and this happened: --- The following packages will be upgraded: ttf-takao-gothic 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/12.7 MB of archives. After unpacking 32.8 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 132192 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ttf-takao-gothic 003.02.01-2 (using .../ttf-takao- gothic_003.02.01-3_all.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 18: Syntax error: Bad function name dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-takao- gothic_003.02.01-3_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-takao-gothic_003.02.01-3_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: --- Taking a gander at the preinst script in the .deb, the relevant "bad function name" seems to be check_broken_ttf-japanese-gothic() I downloaded the source, changed the dashes in the function name to underscores, repackaged, crossed my fingers and successfully installed the modified package. I would submit a patch, but I don't really know how to use patch and it's a pretty darn easy fix. Thanks for all your hard work! -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org