Your message dated Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:33:41 +0000
with message-id <e1sgbrz-0006g4...@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#676874: fixed in dpkg 1.16.4.3
has caused the Debian Bug report #676874,
regarding [update-alternatives] Should allow too large priority values for
backwards compatibility
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676874: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676874
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Package: ghc
Version: 7.4.1-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When I try to insall ghc, this is the output I get:
asm@tara:~$ sudo apt-get install ghc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ghc-prof ghc-doc haskell-doc llvm-3.0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ghc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/45.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 288 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package ghc.
(Reading database ... 166376 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ghc (from .../archives/ghc_7.4.1-3_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ghc (7.4.1-3) ...
update-alternatives: priority is out of range
Usage: update-alternatives [<option> ...] <command>
Commands:
--install <link> <name> <path> <priority>
[--slave <link> <name> <path>] ...
add a group of alternatives to the system.
--remove <name> <path> remove <path> from the <name> group alternative.
--remove-all <name> remove <name> group from the alternatives system.
--auto <name> switch the master link <name> to automatic mode.
--display <name> display information about the <name> group.
--query <name> machine parseable version of --display <name>.
--list <name> display all targets of the <name> group.
--get-selections list master alternative names and their status.
--set-selections read alternative status from standard input.
--config <name> show alternatives for the <name> group and ask the
user to select which one to use.
--set <name> <path> set <path> as alternative for <name>.
--all call --config on all alternatives.
<link> is the symlink pointing to /etc/alternatives/<name>.
(e.g. /usr/bin/pager)
<name> is the master name for this link group.
(e.g. pager)
<path> is the location of one of the alternative target files.
(e.g. /usr/bin/less)
<priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers have higher priority in
automatic mode.
Options:
--altdir <directory> change the alternatives directory.
--admindir <directory> change the administrative directory.
--log <file> change the log file.
--force allow replacing files with alternative links.
--skip-auto skip prompt for alternatives correctly configured
in automatic mode (relevant for --config only)
--verbose verbose operation, more output.
--quiet quiet operation, minimal output.
--help show this help message.
--version show the version.
dpkg: error processing ghc (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
ghc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Running, dpkg --configure ghc, returns the same error. Someone on the Debian
IRC suggested that this was a packaging bug that just fudged the priority
number for update-alternatives. I have reproduced this bug on two independent
systems now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ghc depends on:
ii gcc 4:4.7.0-6
ii libbsd-dev 0.4.0-1
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libc6-dev 2.13-33
ii libffi-dev 3.0.10-3
ii libffi5 3.0.10-3
ii libgmp-dev 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii libncurses5 5.9-8
ii libtinfo5 5.9-8
ghc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ghc suggests:
pn ghc-doc <none>
pn ghc-prof <none>
pn haskell-doc <none>
pn llvm-3.0 <none>
ii perl 5.14.2-11
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.16.4.3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
dpkg-dev_1.16.4.3_all.deb
to main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.16.4.3_all.deb
dpkg_1.16.4.3.dsc
to main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.16.4.3.dsc
dpkg_1.16.4.3.tar.bz2
to main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.16.4.3.tar.bz2
dpkg_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
to main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
dselect_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
to main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
libdpkg-dev_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
to main/d/dpkg/libdpkg-dev_1.16.4.3_amd64.deb
libdpkg-perl_1.16.4.3_all.deb
to main/d/dpkg/libdpkg-perl_1.16.4.3_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 676...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> (supplier of updated dpkg package)
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:56:15 +0200
Source: dpkg
Binary: libdpkg-dev dpkg dpkg-dev libdpkg-perl dselect
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.16.4.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-d...@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Description:
dpkg - Debian package management system
dpkg-dev - Debian package development tools
dselect - Debian package management front-end
libdpkg-dev - Debian package management static library
libdpkg-perl - Dpkg perl modules
Closes: 676874
Changes:
dpkg (1.16.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
.
* On «update-alternatives --install» only warn for now on out of range
priorities and clamp the values, as there seems to be packages using
priorities > INT_MAX, which although bogus as they were previously
overflowing the int used to store them, that would cause installation
failures when upgrading from squeeze. This will be reverted to an
error after wheezy. Closes: #676874
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