[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#803016: libxml2: Upgrade fails with "triggers ci file contains unknown directive `activate-noawait'"

[Tore Anderson]

Package: libxml2
Version: 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze13
Severity: important


This console output probably says it all:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libxml2
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/813 kB of archives.
After this operation, 241 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 33143 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze12 (using .../libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze13_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze13_i386.deb (--unpack):
 triggers ci file contains unknown directive `activate-noawait'
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze13_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.10
  APT prefers squeeze-lts
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libxml2 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.3-4+deb6u7  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libxml2 recommends:
pn  xml-core                      <none>     (no description available)

libxml2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information