Comment 0 for bug 77884

Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.0.49
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I have no idea where to assign this to, but it looks like apt-listbugs.

I just tried to upgrade via aptitude, and it bombed out:

Get:7 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 [103kB]
Get:8 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au unstable/main libgnomecanvas2-common 2.10.2-2 [125kB]
Fetched 2816kB in 25s (110kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/40] W: not in gzip format: kernel-patch-scripts
 W: not in gzip format: dbus-1
 W: not in gzip format: findutils
 W: not in gzip format: libgnomecanvas2-0
 W: not in gzip format: libgnome2-common
 W: not in gzip format: libgnomevfs2-0
 W: not in gzip format: libgnomecanvas2-common
 W: not in gzip format: gcc-4.0-base
 W: not in gzip format: clusterssh
 ... E: Too many errors while retrieving bug reports
E: Sub-process if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
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Trying to upgrade fewer packages at a time works though. Perhaps
apt-listbugs should not return a non-zero exit code if an error
occurred - only if the user said "don't continue" (if that is indeed
how apt-listbugs works), since otherwise it renders the system
un-upgradable?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libdpkg-ruby1.8 0.3.1 modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1
ii libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 0.11-5 Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1.8] 1.8.2-7 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libxml-parser-ruby1.8 0.6.8-1 Interface of expat for the scripti
ii ruby 1.8.2-1 An interpreter of object-oriented

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