Re: apt-get error message

[Ben Kal <benkal@euronet.nl>]

On 4 Jun 2003 Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> wrote:

> When I 'apt-get install' a package I have been getting the following error
> message:
>
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes Traceback (most recent
> call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 125, in ?
>     (changes, urgency) = apt_listchanges.extract_changelog(deb, fromversion)
>   File "/usr/lib/site-python/apt_listchanges.py", line 62, in extract_changelog
>     binpackage = pkgdata.Package
> AttributeError: DebianControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package'
>
> Is my system somehow corrupt or is this an actual error in
> apt-listchanges?

Is this with any package, with some packages, or with one particular
package (and in the last case: which)? Did you always got this error
with certain packages, or did it recently start to pop up (and then:
since when, after what change in your system?)

On my laptop I have
  no apt-listchanges    in /usr/bin/
  no apt-listchanges.py in /usr/lib/site-python/
but apt-get does its job so these two files apparently are not essential
parts of my apt 0.5.4. Therefore, I wonder what package other than apt
they might belong to and why they were called. So:
- which version of apt are you using? To find out, do
  $ dpkg -s apt 
- which package do /usr/bin/apt-listchanges and
/usr/lib/site-python/apt-listchanges.py belong to? To find out, do
  $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-listchanges /usr/lib/site-python/apt-listchanges.py

But, you are probably helped most quickly by someone who understands what
> AttributeError: DebianControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package'
really means.

Ben

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