On 2017-01-23 19:17, Maarten van Gompel wrote: > Hi Andreas, Mattia, et. al. > >> uploads should happen early enough to allow automatic migration after 10 >> days on Feb 05 (so probably at most 2 days left) > > Right. We have prepared new upstream releases for uctodata, ucto, frogdata and > frog today that rely on the data being in share/ instead of etc/, and should > therefore resolve this persistent bug. I updated all the debian packages > accordingly. The fact I did frog and frogdata as well is because the same > issue > might likely arise there and it depends on ucto anyhow. Putting the stuff in > etc/ was unnecessary overengineering on our part.
piuparts probably didn't test frog* if their dependencies failed, otherwise it would have found the same error there > > I followed the documentation and created postint/preinst/postrm scripts for > libucto2 (ucto), uctodata and frogdata that takes care of removing the old > files, as you suggested. I tested it on migration from the previous releases > and it works. Still, a second look from someone with more knowledge about > these > things is highly appreciated. I haven't been able to test the upgrade from > the > jessie versions yet but I'll try to look into piuparts to do that. I think > everything should be solved with the releases I prepared today (but again; > double checks appreciated!) I'll take a look > @Mattia: Do you happen to be available on such short notice to sponsor/upload > these four packages again? Considering also the very tight deadline before > the > freeze. Sorry for the inconvenience! If needed, I can sponsor that as well > For completion's sake, the packages are: > > * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/uctodata.git > * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/ucto.git > * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/frogdata.git > * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/frog.git > > Regards, > > PS: the postinst/preinst/postrm scripts are currently three copies of the same > thing. I realize this is probably ugly (unnecessary duplication) and not the > best way, but I didn't know what would be the best solution and since I was in > a rush I left it like this. use debian/$package.maintscript instead of doing it directly in maintscripts put in there lines like rm_conffile /etc/ucto/tokconfig-es 0.4-1~ no dpkg-maintscript-helper prefix, no default arguments, no trailing comments! use $VERSION_TO_BE_UPLOADED + "~" as prior-version argument this will generate appropriate pre/post/inst/rm scripts with the same content Andreas (in a hurry)
