package foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline

[Michał Rudnicki]

Binary package hint: foomatic-filters

Package foomatic-filters fails to install or upgrade to 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2.1_all

$ dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/foomatic-filters_3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2.1_all.deb

(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/foomatic-filters_3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2.1_all.deb (--install):
 files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/foomatic-filters_3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2.1_all.deb
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
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: foomatic-filters
Title: package foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20071204-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

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.

[Michał Rudnicki (stronger)]

I run into similar problem again. These are last lines from apt-get upgrade output:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.2-0ubuntu17_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `libice-dev' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_3.2-0ubuntu17_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried purging apt cache via apt-get clean and removing /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin but it didn't help.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 108189, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.