Re: dpkg Broken in Debian Buster
Hi!
On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 18:10:48 +1200, Darren Hale wrote:
> I have recently installed Debian Buster and found when invoking in
> terminal su and using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and dpkg -i that there
> is error messages.
What error message? As is, this report does not really look
actionable.
> I have read all the notes around Debian Buster and tried su - and
> other options and nothing works. I request that the dpkg work as it
> did in Debian Stretch and previous be the default so that these
> important system functions are restored such as dpkg -i when using su.
> I have wasted a lot of time trying to fix this issue with no
> resolution.
My only guess, without more details, is that you might have stumbled
over behavior change in su after util-linux took it over from the
login package. See:
$ zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz
If that's the case, then I'd recommend installing apt-listchanges so
that you can see these NEWS entries on upgrade, and also reading the
Release Notes before such distribution upgrade:
<https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#su-environment-variables>
In any case this does not appear to be a problem with dpkg, as I'd
assume we'd have heard of such thing way earlier.
Thanks,
Guillem
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