[Popcon-developers] Bug#529393: Seeing same problem using apt-get

[erikd@mega-nerd.com (Erik de Castro Lopo)]

Hi,

I'm seeing the same problem on a recently debootstrapped Sid system.

The following suggests this is actually a bug in dpkg (were there any
recent changes there?).

root:~# apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpp cpp-4.3 libgmp3c2 libice6 libmpfr1ldbl libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb1
  libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6
  libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 x11-common
Suggested packages:
  cpp-doc gcc-4.3-locales nickle cairo-5c
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpp cpp-4.3 libgmp3c2 libice6 libmpfr1ldbl libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb1
  libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6
  libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 x11-common x11-xserver-utils
0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6090kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


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