Bug#325361: libpango1.0-common: Postinstallation script dies because /etc/defoma/config/pango.conf has not been unpacked

[Eric Christopherson]

Package: libpango1.0-common
Version: 1.8.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


When I tried to install libpango1.0-common 1.8.2-1 and libpango1.0-0
1.8.2-1, the libpango1.0-common postinstallation script exited with
error 2, causing it not to be configured correctly. I looked through the
script and found that the failure is in update-pangox-aliases, which
quits with no error message if /etc/defoma/config/pango.conf doesn't yet
exist (line 56 of update-pangox-aliases). I did some investigating and
found that /etc/defoma/config/pango.conf is supposed to be provided by
libpango1.0-common, but did not in fact exist. I don't know why it
wasn't unpacked before the postinst ran, but I manually extracted it
from libpango1.0-common_1.8.2-1_i386.deb, tried again to install
libpango1.0-common and libpango1.0-0, and this time it worked.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages libpango1.0-common depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.57       Debian configuration management sy
ii  defoma                      0.11.8-0.1   Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  fontconfig                  2.3.2-1      generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1              2.3.2-1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2.4    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.6.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.8.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libpango1.0-common recommends:
pn  x-ttcidfont-conf              <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  libpango1.0-common/saved_aliases_file:
* libpango1.0-common/suggested_fonts:
* libpango1.0-common/notice_xft2_and_fontconfig:
  libpango1.0-common/use_defoma: true
  libpango1.0-common/other_fonts:
  libpango1.0-common/generated_aliases_file: