Bug#845280: apt: useless path given in failed install messages
Package: apt
Version: 1.3.1
Severity: normal
Hi!
When installation of a package fails, recent apt makes dpkg print useless
paths in the error message:
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-iwKqmD/4-libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxtables.so.12.0.0', which is also in package libxtables11:amd64 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-iwKqmD/4-libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb
Until recently, the path given was to /var/cache/apt/archives/ where
.deb files are actually kept. I see they are now copied to
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-iwKqmD/ and prefixed by ordinal numbers, but that
temporary directory ceases to exist before apt returns, thus is useless to
the user.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.10+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gpgv 2.1.16-2
ii init-system-helpers 1.46
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3.1
ii libc6 2.24-5
ii libgcc1 1:6.2.1-4
ii libstdc++6 6.2.1-4
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.16-2
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15
ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1
ii python-apt 1.1.0~beta5
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