[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317723: login: 1:4.0.3-35 fails to install

[David A. Cobb]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
Severity: normal

aptitude installation of  login 1:4.0.3-35 replacing 4.0.3-31sarge
fails with message:
[EDITED]
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

The following packages have been kept back:
  libhowl-doc [0.9.8-2 -> 0.9.8-2] 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  login [1:4.0.3-31sarge5 -> 1:4.0.3-35] <+61.4kB> 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/591kB of archives. After unpacking 61.4kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
Writing extended state information... Done

Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done

Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 925155 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace login 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 (using .../login_1%3a4.0.3-35_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement login ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-35_i386.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `./etc/pam.d/login': No such file or directory <<<==========
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-35_i386.deb
Updating Debian Packages of System Configurations (dpsyco).
sync: ignoring all arguments
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
[NOTHING NEW BELOW HERE]


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (999, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-f3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information