Hello Andreas, Is there a possibility that piuparts were fragile from some point of view? ... or I suspect that the version of piuparts you have run is not the same as the version which I am able to download from Debian.
If you did not use piuparts, please can you tell which procedure you used instead to find #656113 in the version 4.03a-4 of wims? I just cannot reproduce this bug. When I launch "pbuilder login", and install wims in the chroot with gdebi (after installing gdebi-core), everything goes smoothly. ---oOo--- On the other hand, I could not run piuparts with my computer, neither with: # piuparts wims_4.03a-4_amd64.changes nor with: # piuparts --basetgz=/var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64-base.tgz wims_4.03a-4_amd64.changes I used piuparts version 0.43. The error messages led me to change the temporary directory, since /tmp is mounted as a "tmpfs" with the options nodev and noexec. So I added the special parameter "--tmpdir=/home/georges/tmpdir". Then both invokations of piuparts failed again, with error messages indicating that http://security.debian.org/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages could not be reached. When I tried to invoke piuparts with the distribution wheezy, the error message was: "E: Failed getting release file http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/Release" As a matter of fact, this URL is obsoleted. The file "Release" is currently available at: http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release ------------ As a conclusion, I would like to ask you to check thouroughly that wims is uninstallable with a simple script, or to give me some advice so that I can use piuparts exactly as you did it. Best regards, Georges.
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