Package: netcat-traditional Version: 1.10-44 Severity: serious Justification: fails to install
Hi 1.10-44 fails to install; the binary packages have lost the /bin/nc.traditional binary: root@nc:~# apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease Get:2 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable InRelease [39.7 kB] Get:3 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main amd64 Packages [153 kB] Get:4 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main Translation-en [101 kB] Get:5 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/contrib amd64 Packages [1388 B] Get:6 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/contrib Translation-en [1161 B] Get:7 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/non-free amd64 Packages [1372 B] Get:8 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/non-free Translation-en [484 B] Fetched 298 kB in 2s (171 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@nc:~# apt-get install netcat-traditional Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: netcat-traditional 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 53.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 109 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main amd64 netcat-traditional amd64 1.10-44 [53.1 kB] Fetched 53.1 kB in 1s (90.0 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package netcat-traditional. (Reading database ... 9003 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../netcat-traditional_1.10-44_amd64.deb ... Unpacking netcat-traditional (1.10-44) ... Setting up netcat-traditional (1.10-44) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/nc.traditional doesn't exist dpkg: error processing package netcat-traditional (--configure): installed netcat-traditional package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: netcat-traditional E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@nc:~# And $ debdiff netcat-traditional_1.10-43_amd64.deb netcat-traditional_1.10-44_amd64.deb [The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have different names, permissions or owners.] Files in first .deb but not in second ------------------------------------- -rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/share/man/man1/nc.traditional.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x root/root /bin/nc.traditional Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format) ------------------------------------------------ [-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)-] Installed-Size: [-144-] {+106+} Version: [-1.10-43-] {+1.10-44+} Regards, Salvatore
