Bug#712635: [apt] apt-cache show $packagename spits error on telepathy packages
Hello David, *,
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:13:20AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> 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.
did you try
<quote>
apt-cache show telepathy-haze
</quote>
? I still get this error ... :(
> 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.
Which "unstable versions" do you mean? From apt and its dependencies?
Have a nice day
Thomas.
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