Re: ZINF pkgs crashing dpkg - please test

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On 16 Aug 2002, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I finished a first version of my ZINF packages (ZINF is not FreeA*p).
>
> They seem to reproducibly cause a dpkg degfault on my machine when
> doing the following:
>
> ~# apt-get install freeamp freeamp-extras libfreeamp-esound
> ~# dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure zinf_2.2.0-1_i386.deb zinf-extras_2.2.0-1_i386.deb zinf-plugin-esound_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
>
> On my machine this dpkg crashes like this:
>
> Selecting previously deselected package zinf.
> dpkg: considering removing freeamp in favour of zinf ...
> dpkg: yes, will remove freeamp in favour of zinf.
> (Reading database ... 101551 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking zinf (from zinf_2.2.0-1_i386.deb) ...
> De-configuring freeamp-extras, so that we can remove freeamp ...
> De-configuring libfreeamp-esound, so that we can remove freeamp ...
> Segmentation fault

What version of dpkg?

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