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Re: Usage of r-base-core_3.3.2-1 in pbuilder somehow broken



On 18 December 2016 at 07:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| On 18 December 2016 at 09:27, Andreas Tille wrote:
| | Hi,
| | 
| | since yesterday I'm not able to build any r-* packages any more in
| | pbuilder.  I get something like:
| | 
| | ...
| | Selecting previously unselected package r-base-core.^M
| | Preparing to unpack .../102-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...^M
| | dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty^M
| | dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7jWbcq/102-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):^M
| |  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1^M
| | dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty^M
| | dpkg: error while cleaning up:^M
| |  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1^M
| | ...
| | 
| | You can probably check this when building any r-cran-* package (I just
| | tried r-cran-rncl if you want a certain example).  Any idea what might
| | went wrong here?
| 
| Works for me. I just updated r-cran-rcpparmadillo as RcppArmadillo (for which
| I am upstream) just got a new version.
| 
|   Selecting previously unselected package r-base-core.

|   Preparing to unpack .../120-r-base-core_3.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...

|   Unpacking r-base-core (3.3.2-1) ...

|   Selecting previously unselected package r-cran-littler.

|   Preparing to unpack .../121-r-cran-littler_0.3.1-1_amd64.deb ...

|   Unpacking r-cran-littler (0.3.1-1) ...

|   Selecting previously unselected package littler.

|   Preparing to unpack .../122-littler_0.3.1-1_all.deb ...

|   Unpacking littler (0.3.1-1) ...

| 
| Now, I may just be lucky and an 'sudo pbuilder update' away from breakage but
| it seems that some handshake been dpkg-maintscript-helper and r-base-core is
| broken.  I would point the change vector to dpkg; package r-base has not
| changed in a while, and has not been touched since the R 3.3.2 release.
| 
| Can you debug locally? 

Also:

  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-cran-rcpparmadillo&suite=unstable

Dirk

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