Control: severity -1 serious I'm bumping the severity, as this makes the package uninstallable/not upgradable:
# apt-get install --reinstall kpartx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 32.3 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 kpartx amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6 [32.3 kB] Fetched 32.3 kB in 0s (59.6 kB/s) (Reading database ... 354192 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb ... Failed to stop multipathd.service: Unit multipathd.service not loaded. dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 5 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... Failed to stop multipathd.service: Unit multipathd.service not loaded. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 5 Failed to get unit file state for multipathd.service: No such file or directory multipathd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Fwiw, both binary-indep and binary-arch are buggy. They combine -a and -p and -i and -p. You can't tell the tools to act on all indep/arch packages and only one at the same time. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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