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Bug#576925: [linux-base] postinst fails on undefined subroutine



On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 12:24 +0200, Rainer Schwarzbach wrote:
[...]
> But I think the problem here really is a bug in the postinst script of 
> linux-base:
>  > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-11) ...
>  > Undefined subroutine &DebianKernel::DiskId::_system called at
>  > /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 547.
>  > dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure):
>  >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>  > status 255
> 
> The subroutine _system is defined outside the package 
> DebianKernel::DiskID, but called from inside the package.
[...]

Yes, it looks like I still don't understand Perl scoping rules.  Sorry
about that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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