Bug#494513: Uninstallable: unable to make backup link

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2008e-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

Bug marked as serious as it makes the package uninstallable.
The bug is the following:

Preparing to replace tzdata 2008e-1 (using .../tzdata_2008e-2_all.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement tzdata ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2008e-2_all.deb
(--unpack):
 unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/zoneinfo/MST' before
installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2008e-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I will go on investigating as it has not been reported before and it can
be due to some local config.

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.23     Debian configuration management sy

tzdata recommends no packages.

tzdata suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded