Certain shell constructs are used in f-spot-sqlite-upgrade which are specific to bash; if any other shell is used as /bin/sh (such as 'dash' in Ubuntu and hopefully in Debian lenny), then the script will not work as expected.

Here is the output of checkbashisms:

$ checkbashisms tools/f-spot-sqlite-upgrade 
possible bashism in tools/f-spot-sqlite-upgrade line 11 (should be >word 2>&1):
if ! which sqlite >& /dev/null ; then
possible bashism in tools/f-spot-sqlite-upgrade line 14 (should be >word 2>&1):
elif ! which sqlite3 >& /dev/null ; then
possible bashism in tools/f-spot-sqlite-upgrade line 29 (should be >word 2>&1):
if grep "^...This file contains an SQLite 2.1 database" $DB_LOCATION &> /dev/null; then

(Reported as http://bugs.debian.org/464652 in Debian.)