Bug#601859: Can't install package, post-installation script returns -1

[Ole Laursen]

Package: wesnoth-1.9-core
Version: 1:1.9.1-1
Severity: grave

Hi!

Can't install the package, got a big bunch of errors from aptitude
when I installed wesnoth-1.9, seems to come from the postinst script:

ole:~/$ LANG=C sudo dpkg --configure wesnoth-1.9-core
Setting up wesnoth-1.9-core (1:1.9.1-1) ...
dpkg: error processing wesnoth-1.9-core (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wesnoth-1.9-core

I tried commenting out the divert_oldfiles function in
wesnoth-1.9-core.postinst and now it works. Maybe the script just
terminates immediately from the "set -e" at the top if the grep
commands return 1?

Another oddity is that the editor script is
/usr/games/wesnoth-1.9_editor (with underscore) contrary to the other
scripts that are with hyphen, e.g. wesnoth-1.9-nolog.

By the way, why is it installing in /usr/games instead of /usr/bin?
That's weird. Is that a leftover from old Unix structure?

PS: Thanks for packaging wesnoth, I'm going to have my first try at it now. :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wesnoth-1.9-core depends on:
ii  libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4         Boost.Iostreams Library
ii  libboost-regex1.42.0    1.42.0-4         regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-system1.42.0   1.42.0-4         Operating system (e.g. diagnostics
ii  libboost-thread1.42.0   1.42.0-4         portable C++ multi-threading
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-3         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfribidi0             0.19.2-1         Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-5        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsdl-image1.2         1.2.10-2+b2      image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2         1.2.8-6+b1       mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-net1.2           1.2.7-2          network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0         2.0.9-1          ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6.1       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-5          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  wesnoth-1.9-data        1:1.9.1-1        data files for Wesnoth (branch 1.9
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime