Control: reassign -1 lmodern Control: retitle -1 lmodern: maintainter script fails due to missing defoma hints file
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 07:32:24 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > reassign 695260 dpkg > tags 695260 - moreinfo unreproducible > retitle 695260 dpkg-maintscript-helper breaks when rm_conffile file is missing > thanks > in our lmodern package we use dpkg-maintscript helper to remove the > old lmodern.hints file (transition away from defoma). The code is > generated by having debian/lmodern.maintscript containing: > rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints 2.004.1-3 > rm_conffile /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg 2.004.1-3.1 > which generated in the postinst script: > dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints > 2.004.1-3 -- "$@" > dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg > 2.004.1-3.1 -- "$@" > > Now it seems that if out of whatever reason - in this current case it is > hard to say why, but the admin might have removed the file which is an > allowed procedure - the file is missing, the call to dpkg-maintscript-helper > fails. I quote from the bug report we got: dpkg-maintscript-helper should handle missing files gracefuly, also it does not print that kind of error on a missing file either. But in any case I don't see what would lead to that conclusion. > > Configurazione di lmodern (2.004.1-3)... > > /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty. > > dpkg: errore nell'elaborare lmodern (--configure): > > il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo > > stato di errore 1 The failing version here is 2.004.1-3 which is just the one preceding the switch away from defoma (in 2.004.1-3.1) and as such of the new usage of dpkg-maintscript-helper, so that's another hint that this cannot be it. My guess would be that another program called from the maintscript (defome itself most probably) is failing, so a problem that should probably be handled by a new fixed lmodern on upgrade. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
