#670920 apt: E: Internal Error, No file name for gcc-4.7-base

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Cyril Brulebois
Date:
2019-10-02 17:36:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#670920#5
Date:
2012-04-30 12:43:12 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

due to another gcc changelog funny thing, my dist-upgrade broke and I
couldn't get control back, since the faulty package can't be removed due
to dependencies, and since apt is now hitting an internal error.

You'll find the transcript attached.

Mraw,
KiBi.

#670920#10
Date:
2014-09-17 14:12:42 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

When debugging a particular case for dictionaries-common #751367 I am
getting a similar error message when trying to recover from an
installation error by reinstalling the package. wbritish here is
unconfigured because of a previous error that should no longer happen when
reinstalling, but that will still happen when trying to configure again, and

# apt-get install --reinstall wbritish

fails with

E: Internal Error, No file name for wbritish:amd64

Not sure if this always happens when trying to reinstall a package that is
not yet configured because of an error, but looks like that. In this
particular case nothing depends on wbritish, so I can simply remove and
reinstall.

Found with wheezy apt, but still happens after upgrading apt to sid version.

Regards,