Bug#992237: general: dpkg broken, so no security updates available

[Olaf Zaplinski <oz42@oz42.eu>]

Package: general
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

see below:


Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease [44.1 kB]
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease
Fetched 44.1 kB in 0s (93.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@wp:~# dpkg -S /bin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /bin
root@wp:~# dpkg -l
root@wp:~#

After upgrading to stable, dpkg does not know anything about installed packages. This means that security patches will not be installed.