[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#813426: warning: /etc/alternatives/compare is dangling; it will be updated with best choice

[Vincent Fourmond]

control: severity -1 serious

  Hello,

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:52 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
>
> What      a       mess.

  I can only agree...

> Preparing to unpack .../libmagickwand-6.q16-2_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking libmagickwand-6.q16-2:i386 (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../imagemagick-6-doc_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_all.deb ...
> Unpacking imagemagick-6-doc (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
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> Unpacking imagemagick-doc (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../libmagickcore-6.q16-2_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking libmagickcore-6.q16-2:i386 (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
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> Unpacking imagemagick-6-common (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
> dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/etc/ImageMagick-6': Directory not empty
> dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/etc': Directory not empty
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> Unpacking libdebconfclient0:i386 (0.204) over (0.203) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
> Processing triggers for systemd (228-4+b1) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-0experimental1) ...
> Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
> Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
> Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
> Setting up libdebconfclient0:i386 (0.204) ...
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-0experimental1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../isc-dhcp-client_4.3.3-7_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking isc-dhcp-client (4.3.3-7) over (4.3.3-6) ...
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> Unpacking isc-dhcp-common (4.3.3-7) over (4.3.3-6) ...
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> Unpacking libboost-iostreams1.58.0:i386 (1.58.0+dfsg-4.1+b1) over (1.58.0+dfsg-4.1) ...
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> Unpacking libgnutls30:i386 (3.4.8-3) over (3.4.8-2) ...
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> Unpacking libasound2-data (1.1.0-1) over (1.0.29-1) ...
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> Unpacking libasound2:i386 (1.1.0-1) over (1.0.29-1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../alsa-utils_1.1.0-1_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking alsa-utils (1.1.0-1) over (1.0.29-1+b1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../archives/bdf2psf_1.136_all.deb ...
> Unpacking bdf2psf (1.136) over (1.135) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../debian-policy_3.9.7.0_all.deb ...
> Unpacking debian-policy (3.9.7.0) over (3.9.6.1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../dosfstools_3.99.0~git20160127-2_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking dosfstools (3.99.0~git20160127-2) over (3.0.28-2) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../imagemagick_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_all.deb ...
> dpkg-query: no packages found matching imagemagick:all
> dpkg-query: package 'imagemagick' is not installed
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> dpkg-query: package 'imagemagick' is not installed
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> dpkg-query: package 'imagemagick' is not installed
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> [...]
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

  This looks like a dpkg bug -- dpkg doesn't like so much switching
from arch:any to arch:all, as far as I can tell.

  BTW, you show a very long list of warning messages, did they stop by
themselves ? If yes, I'm very curious why.

> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: directory '/usr/share/doc/imagemagick' contains files not owned by package imagemagick:all, cannot switch to symlink
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_8%3a6.9.2.10+dfsg-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
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> Unpacking imagemagick-6.q16 (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) over (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-1) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../iso-codes_3.65-1_all.deb ...

  Thanks !

      Vincent