Package: apt
Version: 1.2.3
Severity: important
Hi,
while debugging an issue found by piuparts on upgrading from jessie to
stretch I stumbled upon this debug output from dpkg-maintscript-helper:
Setting up apt (1.2.3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/apt ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal
...
usermod: no changes
DEBUG: dpkg-maintscript-helper: Executing /usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper
rm_conffile in postinst of apt
DEBUG: dpkg-maintscript-helper: CONFFILE=/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20changelog
PACKAGE=apt:amd64 LASTVERSION=1.0.3 ACTION=@ PARAM=--
This looks like dpkg-maintscript-helper gets called with the wrong
parameters ... how does apt.maintscript look like?
rm_conffile /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20changelog 1.0.3 -- "@"
yes, that's bullshit. Correct would be
rm_conffile /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20changelog 1.2.4~
So this has never worked since it was introduced in 2014 ...
Version bumped assuming the fixed version will be uploaded as 1.2.4.
Andreas
