Bug#670920: apt: E: Internal Error, No file name for gcc-4.7-base

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:43:12PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> due to another gcc changelog funny thing, my dist-upgrade broke and I
> couldn't get control back, since the faulty package can't be removed due
> to dependencies, and since apt is now hitting an internal error.
> 
> You'll find the transcript attached.

Hi,

When debugging a particular case for dictionaries-common #751367 I am
getting a similar error message when trying to recover from an
installation error by reinstalling the package. wbritish here is
unconfigured because of a previous error that should no longer happen when
reinstalling, but that will still happen when trying to configure again, and

# apt-get install --reinstall wbritish

fails with

E: Internal Error, No file name for wbritish:amd64

Not sure if this always happens when trying to reinstall a package that is
not yet configured because of an error, but looks like that. In this
particular case nothing depends on wbritish, so I can simply remove and
reinstall.

Found with wheezy apt, but still happens after upgrading apt to sid version.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin