colord postinst fails with "27: [: which: unexpected operator"

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

Just ran a dist-upgrade and noticed that the post-install script for colord fails:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcolorhug1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  colord libcolord1 libgusb2 python-logilab-common
4 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,143 kB of archives.
After this operation, 620 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main libgusb2 amd64 0.1.5-0ubuntu1 [18.5 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/main libcolord1 amd64 0.1.30-0ubuntu2 [85.6 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/universe libcolorhug1 amd64 0.1.30-0ubuntu2 [25.4 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/main colord amd64 0.1.30-0ubuntu2 [264 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main python-logilab-common all 0.58.3-1ubuntu1 [750 kB]
Fetched 1,143 kB in 12s (92.6 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 192532 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libgusb2 0.1.3-5 (using .../libgusb2_0.1.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgusb2:amd64 ...
Preparing to replace libcolord1:amd64 0.1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../libcolord1_0.1.30-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libcolord1:amd64 ...
Selecting previously unselected package libcolorhug1:amd64.
Unpacking libcolorhug1:amd64 (from .../libcolorhug1_0.1.30-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Preparing to replace colord 0.1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../colord_0.1.30-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement colord ...
Preparing to replace python-logilab-common 0.58.0-1ubuntu1 (using .../python-logilab-common_0.58.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-logilab-common ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up libgusb2:amd64 (0.1.5-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libcolord1:amd64 (0.1.30-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libcolorhug1:amd64 (0.1.30-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up colord (0.1.30-0ubuntu2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/colord.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/colormgr-completion.bash ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/colord.postinst: 27: [: which: unexpected operator
Setting up python-logilab-common (0.58.3-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: colord 0.1.30-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 4 14:55:57 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: colord
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-12-06 (87 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report and the fix, somebody uploaded a similar fix around the time you opened the ticket as well:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/colord/0.1.30-0ubuntu3