Package: python3-docutils
Version: 0.14+dfsg-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
While trying to install build-deps for linux kernel package,
python3-docutils failed to install on Sid armel/armhf/mips/mipsel and
passed on other official Sid architectures. The postinst script failed
with following error messages:
Setting up python3-docutils (0.14+dfsg-3) ...
update-alternatives: priority must be an integer
Use 'update-alternatives --help' for program usage information.
dpkg: error processing package python3-docutils (--configure):
installed python3-docutils package post-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 2
With some more inspection into the postinst script, the for-loop inside
is to be blamed:
for exe in /usr/share/docutils/scripts/python3/*
do
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/${exe##*/} ${exe##*/}
$exe 20
done
Somehow dash failed to expand /usr/share/docutils/scripts/python3/*, so
that exec variable is simply '/usr/share/docutils/scripts/python3/*',
which is later expanded as extra dozens of update-alternatives'
arguments. To be more detailed, at the time executed, dash path
expansion still worked as it's able to expand /usr/share/* and
/usr/share/docutils*, but it failed to expand /usr/share/docutils/* and
any other pattern with a /usr/share/docutils/ prefix. Files has been
installed correctly and accessible, but dash simply unable to expand
such globs.
Replace that path glob with a `find ... -type f` fixes the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:zh_TW (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages python3-docutils depends on:
ii docutils-common 0.14+dfsg-3
ii python3 3.7.1-2
ii python3-roman 2.0.0-3
Versions of packages python3-docutils recommends:
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5
ii python3-pil 5.3.0-1
ii python3-pygments 2.2.0+dfsg-2
Versions of packages python3-docutils suggests:
pn docutils-doc <none>
ii fonts-linuxlibertine 5.3.0-4
pn texlive-lang-french <none>
ii texlive-latex-base 2018.20181116-1
pn texlive-latex-recommended <none>
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