[Bug 583698] Re: hardy-proposed (2.2.8-1ubuntu0.16) uninstallable

[Colin Watson]

This affects specifically users who have statoverrides set for
/usr/sbin/apache2.  This doesn't seem to be done by anything in the
current packaging; it could either be manual, or the relics of an old
script.  Did you intentionally make /usr/sbin/apache2 non-executable?

The bug is that cut is invoked with its default delimiter, namely tab,
but dpkg-statoverrides separates the fields in its output with spaces.
Therefore, the correct fix is to add the -d' ' option to that invocation
of cut.

This was fixed by Debian in 2.2.12-1 (merged into karmic) by way of
removing that upgrade code entirely - indeed, there's no clear evidence
that they ever noticed the bug.  However, since this is code to handle
upgrades from apache 2.0 to 2.2, and dapper had 2.0, I don't think
that's a valid option for hardy.  However, the version in jaunty (and
jaunty-updates) suffers from the same bug, and should be fixed at the
same time.

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hardy-proposed (2.2.8-1ubuntu0.16) uninstallable
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