package foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dpkg (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: foomatic-filters
Package foomatic-filters fails to install or upgrade to 3.0.2-20071204-
$ dpkg -i /var/cache/
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 29 10:25:40 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: foomatic-filters
Title: package foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
This suggests more that dpkg is broken and not foomatic-filters. A broken file in libice-dev (which is not required/ needed/ used by foomatic-filters) should not break the installation of foomatic-filters.