[Popcon-developers] Bug#229112: popularity-contest: postinst returned error 20

[Joe Nahmias]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.8
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

I just tried to upgrade popcon to version 1.8 (from 1.7), and the
postinst script fails:

    Setting up popularity-contest (1.8) ...
    dpkg: error processing popularity-contest (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     popularity-contest
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried running the postinst with -x, and got this:

    Setting up popularity-contest (1.8) ...
    + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
    ++ '[' '!' '' ']'
    ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/popularity-contest.postinst configure 1.7
    dpkg: error processing popularity-contest (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     popularity-contest


--Joe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux laptop 2.4.24-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 6 21:29:44 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.7      Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.18    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  perl                          5.8.2-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.0.17-1   A high-performance mail transport 

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
* popularity-contest/intro: 
* popularity-contest/update-mailto: true