Bug#678807: ttf-root-installer: post installation fails

[Robert Luberda]

Package: ttf-root-installer
Version: 5.34.00~rc1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: can't upgrade package

Hi,

Upgrade of ttf-root-installer fails:

  Setting up ttf-root-installer (5.34.00~rc1-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing ttf-root-installer (--configure):
    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4


When I add set -x into /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-root-installer.postinst,
it is visible that the last command the script tries to download
something with wget:

  + test -z
  + wget --continue --tries=1 --dns-timeout=10 --connect-timeout=5 --read-timeout=300 -q --directory-prefix . -c ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ttf/ttf_fonts.tar.gz
  dpkg: error processing ttf-root-installer (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4

but it fails to do any error-handling in case of any downloads issues.


There is a simillar bug report in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/root-system/+bug/349860


Regards,
robert


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ttf-root-installer depends on:
ii  debconf       1.5.44
ii  wget          1.13.4-3
ii  xfonts-utils  1:7.7~1

ttf-root-installer recommends no packages.

ttf-root-installer suggests no packages.

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