retitle 611913 apt-listbugs: leaves problematic apt configuration fragment if in config-files status and unpack fails thanks
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:46:40 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-04 19:31 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:30:26 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> or maybe your patch should be applied, since renaming > >> conffiles in maintainer scripts looks rather fragile to me. > > > > This could be a more robust solution, but I have to understand how the > > transition from the old strategy to the new one can be managed (since > > someone could have an old version in the "Config-Files" state and > > install a new version, someone else could try to downgrade, and so > > forth...). > > You have to keep the preinst script, possibly limiting its actions to > the case where "$2" is non-null. I think this should also be > sufficient, and you can drop the postrm handling. Thanks for your useful suggestions, Sven. For the time being, I'll probably add the abort-install handling code to the postrm script, since I want to avoid major changes (there are already too many changes pending for the next upload). I may of course come back to this later on, with a longer term solution... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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