Bug#921067: libstdc++-8-dev: install fails with "dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)"

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

well, you broke your system, and now attribute it to GCC? Please come up with
evidence and don't exaggerate bug severities.

On 01.02.19 09:56, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
> Package: libstdc++-8-dev
> Version: 8.2.0-15
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> 
> This problem as arisen during an upgrade. The system is now reporting:
> 	root@redhorse:/tmp# dpkg --configure -a
> 	dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of g++-8:
> 	 g++-8 depends on gcc-8 (= 8.2.0-16); however:
> 	  Package gcc-8 is not configured yet.
> 	 g++-8 depends on libstdc++-8-dev (= 8.2.0-16); however:
> 	  Package libstdc++-8-dev:amd64 is not installed.
> 	
> 	dpkg: error processing package g++-8 (--configure):
> 	 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> 	Errors were encountered while processing:
> 	 g++-8
> 
> Also apt cannot install, or upgrade, any other packages with the system
> in this state. Manually running the relevant scripts from /var/lib/dpkg/info/ does not produce
> an error.
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages libstdc++-8-dev depends on:
> ii  gcc-8-base    8.2.0-16
> ii  libc6-dev     2.28-5
> hi  libgcc-8-dev  8.2.0-15
> ii  libstdc++6    8.2.0-16
> 
> libstdc++-8-dev recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages libstdc++-8-dev suggests:
> pn  libstdc++-8-doc  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
>