Bug#709549: gnome-themes-standard-data: fails to install: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Package: gnome-themes-standard-data
Version: 3.8.1-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

gnome-themes-standard-data currently fails to install in unstable. In a
clean chroot:
| # apt-get install gnome-themes-standard-data
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   gnome-themes-standard-data
| 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 1653 kB of archives.
| After this operation, 4900 kB of additional disk space will be used.
| Get:1 http://localhost:3142/debian/ unstable/main gnome-themes-standard-data all 3.8.1-1 [1653 kB]
| Fetched 1653 kB in 0s (56.0 MB/s)
| debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
| Selecting previously unselected package gnome-themes-standard-data.
| (Reading database ... 11040 files and directories currently installed.)
| Unpacking gnome-themes-standard-data (from .../gnome-themes-standard-data_3.8.1-1_all.deb) ...
| Setting up gnome-themes-standard-data (3.8.1-1) ...
| update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursor.theme to provide /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme (x-cursor-theme) in auto mode
| update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link `/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
| dpkg: error processing gnome-themes-standard-data (--configure):
|  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  gnome-themes-standard-data
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

/usr/share/icons/default does not exist and thus update-alternatives
fails. This does not only happen in a clean chroot, but also if no other cursor
theme has been installed before and /usr/share/icons/default has not been
created by another package.

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (650, 'unstable'), (601, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- no debconf information

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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