Package: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Version: 0.8.12-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
Using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile' guards introduces unreliability into upgrades; it means that the conffile is removed or not depending on whether dpkg happens to be unpacked before freeipmi-bmc-watchdog. This seems generally undesirable; it would be better to enforce a single code path. (This is academic for Debian because the version of dpkg in squeeze supported dpkg-maintscript-helper, hence Severity: wishlist; Ubuntu's last LTS release didn't have a sufficient version of dpkg for that which is why I care.) It would be nice to just use dh_installdeb's support for generating dpkg-maintscript-helper commands, which was introduced in debhelper 8.1.0. This would remove duplicate code from your maintainer scripts - in fact, you'd no longer need to have handwritten maintainer scripts at all. Here's a patch: * Use maintscript support in dh_installdeb rather than writing out dpkg-maintscript-helper commands by hand. We now simply Pre-Depend on a new enough version of dpkg rather than using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports' guards, leading to more predictable behaviour on upgrades. diff -Nru freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/control freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/control --- freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/control 2011-07-19 03:28:12.000000000 +0100 +++ freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/control 2012-02-13 15:33:56.000000000 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: admin Priority: extra Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~), autotools-dev, libgcrypt11-dev, chrpath, @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Package: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog Section: admin Architecture: any +Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, freeipmi-tools Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - BMC watchdog FreeIPMI is a collection of Intelligent Platform Management IPMI diff -Nru freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.maintscript freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.maintscript --- freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.maintscript 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.maintscript 2012-02-13 15:32:47.000000000 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +mv_conffile /etc/default/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/default/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 +mv_conffile /etc/init.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 +mv_conffile /etc/logrotate.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/logrotate.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 diff -Nru freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postinst freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postinst --- freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postinst 2011-07-19 03:28:12.000000000 +0100 +++ freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# postinst script for freeipmi-bmc-watchdog -# -# see: dh_installdeb(1) - -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports mv_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/default/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/default/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/init.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/logrotate.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/logrotate.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" -fi - -#DEBHELPER# - -exit 0 diff -Nru freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postrm freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postrm --- freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postrm 2011-07-19 03:28:12.000000000 +0100 +++ freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.postrm 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# postrm script for freeipmi-bmc-watchdog -# -# see: dh_installdeb(1) - -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports mv_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/default/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/default/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/init.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/logrotate.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/logrotate.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" -fi - -#DEBHELPER# - -exit 0 diff -Nru freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.preinst freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.preinst --- freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.preinst 2011-07-19 03:28:12.000000000 +0100 +++ freeipmi-0.8.12/debian/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.preinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# preinst script for freeipmi-bmc-watchdog -# -# see: dh_installdeb(1) - -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports mv_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/default/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/default/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/init.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/init.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" - dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/logrotate.d/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog /etc/logrotate.d/bmc-watchdog 0.7.17~beta2-1 -- "$@" -fi - - -#DEBHELPER# - -exit 0 Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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