Hi, submitting as important as I'm not sure it affects everybody (would be Rc in case): recent upgrade of ssl-cert fails on my system --------------------------------- # apt-get install ssl-cert Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Solving dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: bluez firebird-utils firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc firebird3.0-server-core firebird3.0-utils firebird4.0-common firebird4.0-common-doc firebird4.0-server-core firebird4.0-utils libboost-context1.90.0 libboost-iostreams1.83.0 libboost-thread1.55.0 libboost-thread1.83.0 libbox2d2 libcdb1 libcdr-0.1-1 libel-api-java libfbclient2 libfreehand-0.1-1 libhsqldb1.8.0-java libib-util libiperf0 libjsp-api-java libllvm15 libllvm19 libmspub-0.1-1 libnss-nisplus libpagemaker-0.0-0 libqxp-0.0-0 libreoffice-uiconfig-base libreoffice-uiconfig-draw libreoffice-uiconfig-impress libservlet-api-java libservlet3.1-java libsndio6.1 libtlsrpt0 libtokyocabinet9t64 libtomcrypt1 libtommath1 libvisio-0.1-1 libwebsocket-api-java libzmf-0.0-0 msmtp qml6-module-sso-onlineaccounts rpcsvc-proto Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be upgraded: ssl-cert 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 427 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/17.0 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used. Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database… 832841 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/ssl-cert_1.2.0_all.deb… Unpacking ssl-cert (1.2.0) over (1.1.3)… Setting up ssl-cert (1.2.0)… ssl-cert group already exists, skipping line dpkg: error processing package ssl-cert (--configure): old ssl-cert package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 20 Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1)… Processing triggers for runit (2.3.1-4)… Runit triggered upgrade: setup Runit triggered upgrade: upgrade Processing triggers for runit-user-session (0.14.0)… sync runit user services for ombra .. Runit triggered upgrade: setup Runit triggered upgrade: upgrade .. done Errors were encountered while processing: ssl-cert ====== How can you help? (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ======----- Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old ----- needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)----------------------------- there is likely an issue with debconf or something, can't tell for sure but I had to dowgrade to 1.1.3 (which works fine, but maybe only because it does not run debconf on downgrade..) if I run the postinstall it blocks and lines following 14 are not run, for example I don't see 'make-ssl-cert' invoked below sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssl-cert.postinst configure 1.1.3 + set -e + [ configure = configure ] + systemd-sysusers ssl-cert.conf ssl-cert group already exists, skipping line + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + _DEBCONF_IMPL= + [ ] + [ -x /usr/share/debconf/frontend ] + [ ! -h /usr/share/debconf/frontend ] + _DEBCONF_IMPL=debconf + [ ! ] + [ debconf = cdebconf ] + export PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssl-cert.postinst configure 1.1.3 Best, Lorenzo