re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=189552
I'm seeing the same problem installing magicfilter. None of the filters are getting installed, and dpkg happily exits thinking it did everything right. Running dpkg-verify.pl (got it off the web somewhere) shows that package magicfilter failed to install any filters.
dpkg -D2 shows the same crash as you saw, but I'm hoping that's just a bug in -D2.
dpkg -D100 -i magicfilter_1.2-53_i386.deb
outputs in part
D000010: process_archive looking for overwriting `/usr/share/man/man8/magicfilterconfig.8.gz' D000010: process_archive looking for overwriting `/usr/lib/menu/magicfilter' D000010: process_archive looking for overwriting `/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' D000100: process_archive ... found in magicfilter D000010: process_archive looking for overwriting `/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' D000100: process_archive ... found in magicfilter
And sure enough, it installs /usr/lib/menu/magicfilter but not /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] which it thought already existed. Where is it getting that idea?
Here's what I did before I got into this jam. I had a filter problem (stairstepping), and lamely decided to uninstall and reinstall magicfilter. To avoid losing any local changes to /etc/magicfilter, I renamed it /etc/magicfilter.old before doing the uninstall. I have a feeling this blew dpkg's little mind. Tried to reproduce this problem with another package (ircii), but couldn't.
Now I just want to know how to get magicfilter to install... maybe I should use alien to convert it to an rpm and install it with rpm :-) - Dan
