[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#965193: policykit-1: fails to install: chown error on /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-27
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

policykit-1 cannot be installed:

[...]
Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ...
chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package policykit-1 (--configure):
 installed policykit-1 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
[...]

and at the end:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ...
chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package policykit-1 (--configure):
 installed policykit-1 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
 network-manager depends on policykit-1; however:
  Package policykit-1 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package network-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 policykit-1
 network-manager

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                     1.12.20-1
ii  libc6                    2.31-1
ii  libexpat1                2.2.9-1
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.64.4-1
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]  245.6-3
ii  libpam0g                 1.3.1-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0      0.105-27
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0    0.105-27
ii  libsystemd0              245.6-3

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

Versions of packages policykit-1 is related to:
pn  elogind         <none>
pn  libpam-elogind  <none>
ii  libpam-systemd  245.6-3
ii  systemd         245.6-3

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