Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.90.0 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Due to a dependency issue or other problem, the package is not installable by itself from the etch repository (version 0.70.10). I encountered this when installing iceweasel, and fixed it by installing the package from testing (version 0.90.0). Here is the relevant output when downgrading the the stable version (since I now have 0.90.0 installed): $ aptitude install dictionaries-common/stable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: dictionaries-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/250kB of archives. After unpacking 53.2kB will be freed. Writing extended state information... Done Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg - warning: downgrading dictionaries-common from 0.90.0 to 0.70.10. (Reading database ... 48680 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dictionaries-common 0.90.0 (using .../dictionaries-common_0.70.10_all.deb) ... No alternatives for ispell-dictionary.hash. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_0.70.10_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_0.70.10_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ...(building dependency tree)... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (400, 'stable'), (300, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.4-3 converts between character sets in ii perl-base 5.8.8-7etch1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis dictionaries-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: dictionaries-common/default-ispell: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false
