Bug#224233: apache-common: sed error
I know you already marked this pending, but here's some more  
information just in case it helps you.
After some more digging I found that this is caused by modules-config  
which is not compatible with older versions of sed.
ptelford@ros-saab:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l apache-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================- 
================================================================
ii  apache-common            1.3.29.0.1-2             Support files for  
all Apache webservers
ptelford@ros-saab:/usr/share/apache$ grep "sed -s"    
/usr/sbin/modules-config
                sed -s 's/AddModule mod_perl.c/LoadModule perl_module  
\/usr\/lib\/apache\/1.3\/mod_perl.so/g' | \
ptelford@ros-saab:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l sed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================- 
================================================================
ii  sed                      3.02-8                   The GNU sed  
stream editor.
After upgrading sed this particular error goes away.
ptelford@ros-saab:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l sed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================- 
================================================================
ii  sed                      4.0.7-3                  The GNU sed  
stream editor
Looks like a versioned depends is needed.  Older versions of sed can't  
use the "-s" option.
Thanks,
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Paul Telford | 1024D/431B38BA | pxt@debian.org | paul@droflet.net
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