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Bug#624726: marked as done (latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab.preinst: misuses dpkg --compare-versions)

Your message dated Mon, 14 May 2012 17:51:50 -0500
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and subject line Re: latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab.preinst: misuses dpkg --compare-versions
has caused the Debian Bug report #624726,
regarding latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab.preinst: misuses dpkg --compare-versions
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Package: latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
Version: 0.20050817-15
Severity: minor
Justification: cosmetic

When installing latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab:

| (Reading database ... 152050 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to replace latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab 0.20050817-15 (using .../latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab_0.20050817-15_all.deb) ...
| dpkg: error: version 'latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab_0.20050817-14' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
| Unpacking replacement latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab ...
| Setting up latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab (0.20050817-15) ...
| Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
| Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
| Processing triggers for tex-common ...
| Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
| Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.

I suspect future dpkg versions will change the conditions when that error
is emitted, but anyway, in this example it is pointing to a real bug:
"dpkg --compare-versions" wants a version number, which in this case would
be 0.20050817-14 rather than that longer string.

Perhaps this would be worth a lintian check?  Cc-ing the lintian
maintainers just in case.

The fix might be as simple as changing

    if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab_0.20050817-14"; then

to

    if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "0.20050817-14"; then

or removing the conffile removal code in preinst altogether (who is
upgrading from such old versions?).

Thanks for keeping Debian working well in Japanese.

Regards,
Jonathan

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Version: 0.20050817-16

Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report!  It has been a while since I last
> checked this package with the current Debian release.
> I will have a look at it this week.

Thank you.  I think this was fixed by r5264 (use maintscript to
remove both old updmap.d files, 2012-03-22).

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