Package: dirmngr Version: 2.1.16-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I've found this problem when trying to do a full upgrade of my installed packages. First, I tried to update everything and this package failed. It wasn upgraded, so then I tried to only upgrade it to isolate the error messages: (Reading database ... 220100 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb ... dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dirmngr_2.1.16-3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dirmngr: gnupg (2.1.16-3) breaks dirmngr (<< 2.1.16-3) and is installed. Version of dirmngr to be configured is 2.1.16-2. dpkg: error processing package dirmngr (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dirmngr depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-2 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.5-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.7-2 ii libgpg-error0 1.25-2 ii libksba8 1.3.5-2 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.44+dfsg-2 ii libnpth0 1.3-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 Versions of packages dirmngr recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.16-3 Versions of packages dirmngr suggests: pn tor <none> -- no debconf information
