[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#378283: Fails with "dpkg --set-selections failed"

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.48

I just created a fresh chroot and installed sbuild 0.48 but it fails
to work.  Downgrading to 0.47 makes it work.  The error is:

 Setting up python-dev (2.3.5-11) ...
 Checking correctness of source dependencies...
 Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc6 sparc (sparc64)
 Toolchain package versions: libc6-dev_2.3.6-15 linux-kernel-headers_2.6.17.3-1 gcc-4.1_4.1.1-8 g++-4.1_4.1.1-8 binutils_2.17-1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev_4.1.1-8 libstdc++6_4.1.1-8
 /usr/bin/dpkg --set-selections failed
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 dpkg-source: extracting jack in jack-3.1.1+cvs20050801
 ******************************************************************************
 Build finished at 20060715-0152
 FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
 Purging /home/tbm/build/chroot-unstable/build/tbm/jack-3.1.1+cvs20050801
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 Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/sbuild line 1342.
 dpkg run to remove packages (intltool-debian readline-common gettext file cdbs html2text gettext-base debhelper python2.3 po-debconf libncurses5-dev python libmagic1 libreadline5 python-central libbz2-1.0 python2.3-dev python-dev) failed!
 Failed to remove installed packages!

FWIW, this is on a stable box, the chroot contains unstable.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/