Debian Bug report logs - #610618
nis: broken postinst: dpkg: version 'nis_3.17-18' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: nis: broken postinst: dpkg: version 'nis_3.17-18' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:54:22 +0100 (CET)

Package: nis
Version: 3.17-31
Severity: normal

Since probably the fix for http://bugs.debian.org/497849 (Please
remove stop links from rc0 and rc6) in 3.17-18, there is a broken
version comparision in nis's postinst script:

root@snidget:~# dpkg-reconfigure -phigh nis
Stopping NIS services: ypbind ypserv ypppasswdd ypxfrd.
Stopping NIS services: ypbind ypserv ypppasswdd ypxfrd.
Starting NIS services: ypbind.
dpkg: version 'nis_3.17-18' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
root@snidget:~# 

Culprit is the following line in the postinst script:

     96         if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "nis_3.17-18"; then

It should look like this:

     96         if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "3.17-18"; then

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nis depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36           Debian configuration management sy
ii  hostname                3.04             utility to set/show the host name 
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-4         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.88-2.1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                1.8.3-9          GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.8        OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  make                    3.81-8           An utility for Directing compilati
ii  netbase                 4.44             Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  portmap                 6.0.0-2          RPC port mapper

nis recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nis suggests:
pn  nscd                          <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/yp.conf changed:
ypserver yp.phys.ethz.ch


-- debconf information:
* nis/domain: phys.ethz.ch

Message #12 received at 610618-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>

To: 610618-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#610618: fixed in nis 3.17-32

Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:33:13 +0000

Source: nis
Source-Version: 3.17-32

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nis, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

nis_3.17-32.diff.gz
  to main/n/nis/nis_3.17-32.diff.gz
nis_3.17-32.dsc
  to main/n/nis/nis_3.17-32.dsc
nis_3.17-32_amd64.deb
  to main/n/nis/nis_3.17-32_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 610618@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> (supplier of updated nis package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:04:03 +0100
Source: nis
Binary: nis
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.17-32
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>
Changed-By: Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>
Description: 
 nis        - clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS)
Closes: 587368 601920 610618 617380 617809 618481 624543
Changes: 
 nis (3.17-32) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix postinst version comparison (closes: #610618).
   * Updated Danish Debconf translation from Joe Dalton (closes: #587368).
   * Updated Vietnamese translation from Clytie Siddall (closes: #601920).
   * Updated Galician translation from Adrián Chaves Fernández (closes: #617380).
   * Updated Catalan translation from Innocent De Marchi (closes: #618481).
   * Updated Dutch translation from Jeroen Schot (closes: #624543).
   * Updated Brazilian Portugese translation from Eder L. Marques
     (closes: #617809).
   * Lintian has mindlessly changed the format of the output, meaning we
     can actually see the warnings but that's a bad thing.
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