Package: modemmanager
Version: 1.7.990-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When trying to remove the modemmanager package dpkg reports an error:
Performing actions...
(Reading database ... 370879 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing modemmanager (1.7.990-1) ...
--runtime cannot be used with unmask
dpkg: error processing package modemmanager (--remove):
installed modemmanager package post-removal script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
modemmanager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The first few lines of the postrm script are:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# drop the temporary mask from prerm
if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && [ "$1" = remove ]; then
systemctl unmask --runtime ModemManager
fi
And checking the man page of systemctl under --runtime:
--runtime
When used with set-property, make changes only temporarily, so that
they are lost on the next reboot.
[...]
Note: this option cannot be used with disable, unmask, preset, or
preset-all, because those operations sometimes need to remove
symlinks under /etc to have the desired effect, which would cause a
persistent change.
So it seems that the script is indeed incorrect in its usage of that flag.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages modemmanager depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2
ii libgudev-1.0-0 232-2
pn libmbim-glib4 <none>
pn libmbim-proxy <none>
ii libmm-glib0 1.7.990-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-20
pn libqmi-glib5 <none>
pn libqmi-proxy <none>
ii libsystemd0 239-1
Versions of packages modemmanager recommends:
ii usb-modeswitch 2.5.2+repack0-2
modemmanager suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
