Bug#572341: Use of uninitialized value $type in exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1271, <STDIN> line 4.

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Subject: Bug#572341: Use of uninitialized value $type in exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1271, <STDIN> line 4.
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:02 +0000
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Reply-to: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, 572341@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <20100303152236.GA4896@debian.org>
References: <20100303152236.GA4896@debian.org>

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:23 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.2
> 
> 
> When installing kernel 2.6.33, I get
> 
>   Use of uninitialized value $type in exists at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1271, <STDIN> line 4.

We established that this happened as a result of a configuration file
that refers to a nonexistent device.  Such references should be ignored.

Ben.

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