[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#387410: bluez-utils: fails on upgrade

[Eddy Petrisor]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-4+b1
Severity: serious
Justification: no upgrade path

Hello,

While trying to upgrade bluez-utils it failed with the following error:

Setting up bluez-utils (3.1-4+b1) ...
Creating device nodes ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bluez-utils.postinst: line 38: ./MAKEDEV: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing bluez-utils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bluez-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up bluez-utils (3.1-4+b1) ...
Creating device nodes ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bluez-utils.postinst: line 38: ./MAKEDEV: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing bluez-utils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bluez-utils
Press return to continue.


It apparently tries to run MAKEDEV from the current directory. Does the
postinst cd to the directory where MAKEDEV is installed (/sbin)? Could
this be related to #350591? Since it was closed some time ago, I am not
sure; please merge this bug, if that is the case.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-rc5-merci
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         0.92-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.1-1       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  0.92-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.71-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-83    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-6  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-20 System-V-like init utilities
ii  udev                         0.100-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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