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dpkg package

  1. Bug #290956
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 290956

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly, E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

I'm reaffecting the apt to dpkg. This is a known issue for other packages as well ( ufw bug 262451 and python-sip4 in bug 279709 )
This is fixed in debian in dpkg 1.14.21 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486843 )