This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.16.9ubuntu1 --------------- dpkg (1.16.9ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes: - Change the multiarch downgrade version checks in prerm/postrm from 1.16.2 to 1.16.0~ to reflect when multiarch landed in Ubuntu. - Migrate dpkg multiarch conffile (and other multi-arch-related conf settings) to the new DB with dpkg --add-architecture, but keep a copy of the old conffile if it was modified. - Out of paranoia, keep an option handler for foreign-architecture that informs people that they need to scrub their config files and upgrade, on the off chance that the above migration fails for some reason (this mitigates the chances of leaving users with a dpkg that fails to run due to a broken config). - Add DPKG_UNTRANSLATED_MESSAGES environment check so that higher-level tools can get untranslated dpkg terminal log messages while at the same time having translated debconf prompts. This is useful for tools that hide the dpkg terminal by default and use apport for bug reporting with the untranslated error message. - Build-depend on gettext:any for cross-building support. - Apply patch from Steve McIntyre to special-case armhf/armel ELF objects in Shlibs/Objdump.pm, so we don't get incorrect deps. - lib/dpkg/pkg-spec.c: map unqualified package names of multiarch-same packages to the native arch instead of throwing an error, so that we don't break on upgrade when there are unqualified names stored in dpkg's own trigger database. - Add logic to the postinst to `dpkg --add-architecture i386' on new installs on amd64, and to also do so on upgrades from pre-conffile Ubuntu versions, mimicking our previous behaviour with the conffile. - Apply a workaround from mvo to consider RC packages as multiarch, during the dpkg consistency checks. (see LP: 1015567 and 1057367). dpkg (1.16.9) unstable; urgency=low [ Raphaël Hertzog ] * Fix dpkg-source regression in "3.0 (quilt)" source packages while unapplying patches that remove all files in a directory. Closes: #683547 * Fix segfault in field format parsing on empty strings, affecting «dpkg-query -W -f ''» and «dpkg-deb -W --showformat=''». LP: #1035512 * Fix dpkg's French usage string which was missing the final “s“ in --print-foreign-architectures. Closes: #685863 [ Guillem Jover ] * Use “statoverrides” instead of “statusoverrides” in dpkg-statoverride. Closes: #686995 * Comment out dpkg(1) documentation about disabled --command-fd option. Closes: #685677 * Cleanup dpkg-divert unit-test environment to avoid build failures. Closes: #687656 * Fix update-alternatives test suite to behave correctly on non-Debian binary paths. Known to be affecting at least Gentoo and Mac OS X. * Do not leak subcall command arguments in update-alternatives. * Fix segfault on update-alternatives when passing --slave without any action at all. LP: #1037431 * Fix memory leak in dpkg filesavespackage(). * Do not print garbage (or worse) on dpkg shared conffile debug output. * Use a hash instead of a ref to a hash for keys() in Dpkg::BuildFlags get_feature_areas(). This causes compilation failures with older perl versions, which can be an issue with partial upgrades. * Fix filter subpattern debug output format string to print an actual value instead of just blanks. * Ignore trailing filter subpattern slashes on reinclusion comparison. This makes sure to reinclude directories previously excluded so that contained files marked for inclusion do not fail to unpack due to a missing directory. Closes: #688416 * Do not consider obsolete conffiles as actively owned by the package. This ensures conffile entries are not misshandled nor mixed up when configuring packages owning the non-obsolete conffiles. Closes: #689836 Based on a patch by Andreas Beckmann