Bug#601959: science-linguistics: upgrading from lenny fails

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:32:32PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: science-linguistics
> Version: 0.11
> Severity: serious
> 
> See (bottom of) the log below.
> 
> I'm not filing bugs for other blends packages, but the following ones
> are affected as well:
>
> ...
>   Selecting previously deselected package blends-common.
>   Unpacking blends-common (from .../blends-common_0.6.14_all.deb) ...
> ...
>    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/science-linguistics_0.11_all.deb (--unpack):
>     there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
>    configured to not write apport reports
>    File /etc/blends/blends.conf is missing.  Please check installation of package blends-common.

This part is really strange because the package blends-common was installed
before and provides the file /etc/blends/blends.conf.

I just have set up a Lenny chroot, installed science-linguistics into
it, changed sources.list to point to squeeze instead of lenny and
installed the new version of science-linguistics.  This perfectly worked
without any trouble.  Do you have any hint how to reproduce this problem
manually?

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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