Bug#712635: [apt] apt-cache show $packagename spits error on telepathy packages

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Hackert <thackert@nexgo.de> wrote:
> . When I try this with telepathy-haze (but also with telepathy-gabble or
> -rakia) I get only the message
> <quote>
> E: Handler silently failed
> </quote>
>
> ... :( I am not sure, if this is really a bug in apt and/or a bug in
> these packages. If I am wrong here, it would be nice someone could
> reassign it to the right package ... ;)
> Sorry for the inconvenience
> Thomas.

Thanks for the report, but while I tried for a while to reproduce this I seem
to be unable to do so. Usually our bugscript would have attached config
and sources which might help to identify what is going on here.

But it would also be nice if you could try current unstable versions as they
introduce some changes to the 'show' code, which might have fixed this
as a by-product.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies