I just spent 4 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't unpack
some sources I made on an unstable system to do a build. I kept
getting this:
tia:~/tia/jdk1.1$ dpkg-source -x jdk1.1_1.1.3.v2-1.dsc
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("jim") at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.
dpkg-source: extracting jdk1.1 in jdk1.1-1.1.3.v2
dpkg-source: failure: remove patch backup file jdk1.1-1.1.3.v2/update-alternati
ves-jdk1.1.dpkg-orig: No such file or directory
It turns out the problem is caused because there is a
different 'patch' in unstable than there is in 'stable'.
(unfortunately, I ended up half-upgrading my stable server
system to a libc6 system trying to figure this out)
I think this is a fairly serious problem. It makes sense
when you think about it - but it didn't come to me right
away.
This really should be fixed in our next stable release. Should
I file a bug against patch? or ftp.debian.org? or both?
I'm going to be gone for a few days - so I won't be able to
file a bug right away. Maybe somebody else would.
Cheers,
- Jim
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