I was getting this error during builds with Vagrant. I've manually set
up a Wheezy VM and I'm still seeing it.
Some in #tails-dev have suggested that this build failure can be solved
by changing any instance of dpkg-dev to libdpkg-perl but that's just
wrong. The output looks like the following:
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P: adding CPU autodetection to the syslinux menu
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
P: fixing syslinux installation
P: including syslinux in the ISO filesystem
Err
http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://mozilla.debian.net wheezy-backports Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg
Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
Err
http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg
Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
Err
http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy-backports Release.gpg
Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
Err
http://deb.tails.boum.org devel Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://deb.torproject.org wheezy Release.gpg
Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
Err
http://deb.torproject.org sid Release.gpg
Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
Reading package lists...
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release.gpg Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.tails.boum.org/dists/devel/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release.gpg Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)
W: Failed to fetch
http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/sid/Release.gpg Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/Release.gpg Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:8118:
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package dpkg-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libdpkg-perl
E: Package 'dpkg-dev' has no installation candidate
E: config/binary_local-hooks/40-include_syslinux_in_ISO_filesystem failed (exit non-zero). You should check for errors.
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
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As a quick workaround I installed privoxy in the VM and the build
succeeded, but I don't see why it was only failing intermittently
prior to installing privoxy.
Anyway, while s/dpkg-dev/libdpkg-perl/ as has been suggested is
absolutely not going to fix this, I don't know what the proper
solution is.
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