[Bug 927993] Re: ordering code may mark a package for configure before its unpacked

[Michael Vogt]

I'm looking at the PreDepends order code and from what I can see there
it looks like its assuming that any dependency will be unpacked already
which is not the case for dpkg. So that code  needs to either ensure
that dpkg is unpacked or we need to figure out why it was not unpacked
before.

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Title:
  ordering code may mark a package for configure before its unpacked

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  At the same time I happened to receive a cron crash which I reported
  as bug 927923.

  -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 493K 2012-02-06 13:34 dpkg.0.crash
  -rw------- 1 root   root   150K 2012-02-06 13:34 _usr_sbin_cron.0.crash

  The error message I received from dpkg looks similar to bug 541595.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-38.83-server 2.6.32.52+drm33.21
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Feb  6 17:33:25 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110719.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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