Package: mlocate Version: 1.1.9-1 I noticed a strange error upgrading mlocate from 0.26-5 to 1.1.9-1:
,---- | Preparing to unpack .../mlocate_1.1.9-1_all.deb ... | dpkg-query: package 'mlocate' is not installed | Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archive files contents. | Unpacking mlocate (1.1.9-1) over (0.26-5) ... `---- And the obsolete conffile /etc/cron.daily/mlocate was not removed as intended. Since I could not make anything out of the error message, I asked on the #debian-dpkg IRC channel and received this explanation (guillem is the dpkg maintainer, zwenna is me): ,---- | <guillem> zwenna: ok so I guess the dpkg-query call is coming from | dpkg-maintscript-helper | <guillem> hmm perhaps wrong arch-qualification as the package seems to have | switched from arch any to all? | <guillem> that would look like the problem yes | <guillem> zwenna: so I think what happens is that: rm_conffile in the new | package preinst does not specify the package name so it gets | automatically inferred to be mlocate:all which does not match the | arch:any instance | <guillem> zwenna: the rm_conffile call seems would need to pass explicitly a | non-arch-qualified package name `---- So it seems you have to specify the package name in debian/mlocate.maintscript to rectify the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.60-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
