Hi Jerome, ok, if you think it does not need to be fixed, you can close the bug.
I should mention that a workaround to get the package configured is to just delete the folder /usr/share/doc/libmpfi-dev. Best, Tobias On 07/05/2016 07:42 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi Tobias, thanks for the report. > > > > On 05/07/16 18:46, Tobias Hansen wrote: >> Source: mpfi >> Version: 1.5.1+ds-4 >> Severity: grave >> Justification: prevents package upgrade > >> Hi Jerome, > >> When upgrading from version 1.5.1+ds-2, I get the following error: > >> Preparing to unpack .../libmpfi-dev_1.5.1+ds-4_amd64.deb ... >> dpkg-query: no packages found matching libmpfi-dev:amd64 >> dpkg-query: package 'libmpfi-dev' is not installed >> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, >> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. >> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: directory '/usr/share/doc/libmpfi-dev' >> contains files not owned by package libmpfi-dev:amd64, cannot switch to >> symlink >> dpkg: error processing archive >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpfi-dev_1.5.1+ds-4_amd64.deb (--unpack): >> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpfi-dev_1.5.1+ds-4_amd64.deb >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > >> The directory contains the following files > >> ls /usr/share/doc/libmpfi-dev >> changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright > > Indeed the migration part of the story had been messed up for a while: > a couple of fixes has been done to fix it. Tests via piuparts and the absence > of any piuparts bugreport let me think that is now working with the current > distributed versions: 1.5.1-1, 1.5.1-3, and 1.5.1+ds-4 . > Your former version, according to the report is 1.5.1+ds-2, a buggy one > that was for a short while in testing or unstable: my guess is that we > can consider it as over. Otherwise, I am not sure if it is relevant > to fix this very migration as it is quite unlikely while I am not sure > how to reproduce it. > > Thanks, > Jerome > > > >> Best, >> Tobias > > > -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
