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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 31/10/10 at 15:08 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.

You need to:
- install science-linguistics in lenny
- point sources.list to squeeze
- apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade
- apt-get dist-upgrade

Not just install the package from squeeze on lenny.

- Lucas