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Author: wirelessduck
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To: devuan-dev
CC: devuan-dev
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] excalibur in gitlab pipeline: failure to install openssh-client


> On 13 Nov 2025, at 21:31, Simon Josefsson <simon@???> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for excalibur and container images! I enabled use of them in a
> GitLab build pipeline, but got an error installing openssh-client:
>
> https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/jobs/12074318631
>
> Any ideas? Some permission diff between devuan6 vs debian13 containers?
>
> Setting up openssh-client (1:10.0p1-7) ...
> Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserLogging.pm line 161.
> dpkg: error processing package openssh-client (--configure):
> installed openssh-client package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 25
> ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> openssh-client
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Running the exact same commands in a debian13 container works on the
> same runner, so I think this is a devuan-specific problem. Here is the
> debian13 log for comparison:
>
> https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/jobs/12074318651
>
> /Simon


Hi Simon,

This is a known issue. I haven’t yet found the cause of the incorrect permissions.

https://git.devuan.org/paddy-hack/container-images/issues/67

Tom