Bug#216949: How do you debug a postinst problem

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: wishlist

There does not seem to be any way to find out what the problem is when
dpkg reports that ``the postinstallation script returned an error code
of 1''.  This is not a theoretical issue -- I've been unable to provide
useful report for bug 216944.

I suggest providing an option to run all shell scripts with -x.  Of
course, you'll need to check whether they are actually #!/bin/sh or
#!/bin/bash scripts.

Thanks,

                                        Juliusz Chroboczek