On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 21:24:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-05-09 18:25:07 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > Hello Vincent! > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote: > > > Severity: grave > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > That is a bold statement … > > Yes, but reportbug doesn't give many choices... For apt, there should > be something like: apt-get leaves the system in an inconsistent state. > 'important' should be about right. > > > xvii:/home/vinc17# apt-get install --purge libreoffice > > > > It would help if you could look into /var/backups/ and find the > > status file representing the state before you issued this command > > for easier reproduction as it is a bit hard to guess otherwise. > > There is one, though I upgraded some packages with aptitude just > before (without any error). But they may be independent... > > Is they a way to simulate an "apt-get install ..." from a given > status file, to see if the error is reproducible? > -o Dir::State::status="/var/lib/dpkg/status" Cheers, Julien
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