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apt-file package

  1. Bug #154180
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 154180

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: [Feisty->Gutsy] apt-file causing upgrade to fail

From the logs:
"""
Setting up apt-file (2.0.8.2ubuntu2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/apt-file ...
q

dpkg: error processing apt-file (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
"""

It appears that apt-file runs the follow bits in its postinst:

                apt-file update || true

This means that one (or more) ~14Mb file(s) are fetched. This is something that should not be done in a postinst script without asking.