[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#678902: catalog registration disappeared during upgrade

[Peter Eisentraut]

On ons, 2012-06-27 at 12:29 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> reassign 678902 sgml-base
> found 678902 sgml-base/1.16+nmu2
> retitle 678902 sgml-base needs to Pre-Depend on dpkg 1.16.4
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:15:45PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Helmut could you please comment on #678902 ?
> 
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
> 
> The most likely cause is a problem with dpkg triggers which is fixed in
> dpkg version 1.16.4. See #675613 and its duplicates for further
> information.
> 
> Please check your dpkg version.
> 
>  1) If it is lower that 1.16.4, upgrade dpkg, run update-catalog
>     --update-super. Your catalog should be fine now.
> 
>  2) If it is at least 1.16.4, it was likely upgraded after the last
>     trigger run. Run update-catalog --update-super. Your catalog should
>     be fine now.
> 
> If these steps do not resolve the problem, my conclusion was wrong and
> we need to further debug this.

I had dpkg 1.16.3 at the time, so it looks like you are on the right
track fixing this by requiring a newer dpkg.