Control: tag 681146 + patch On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:37:58 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Looks like the home directory is removed but the user remains, so the > next installation won't recreate the missing homedirectory and using > the homeless user fails later on. Actually this looks all good in the postinst/postrm, and on my first try I couldn't reproduce this bug. Then I looked closer: > >>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > /usr/sbin/deluser: In order to use the --remove-home, --remove-all-files, > and --backup features, > you need to install the `perl-modules' package. To accomplish that, run > apt-get install perl-modules. Here we are. After making a chroot "perl-free" I got the same error. (And then the user doesn't get removed etc.) Since we can't guarantee perl-modules to be installed at postrm time, and the directory is removed manually anyway, I suggest to delete the "--remove-home" part from the postinst file. Proposed patch attached; comments welcome before I NMU. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: hons: molly's got a rider
diff -u bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/changelog bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/changelog --- bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/changelog +++ bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +bitlbee (3.0.5-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix "fails to install, purge, and install again": + remove --remove-home option from deluser call in bitlbee-common.postrm. + The option needs perl-modules which is not guaranteed to be there, and the + directory gets removed manually anyway. + (Closes: #681146) + + -- gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:44:36 +0200 + bitlbee (3.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. diff -u bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/bitlbee-common.postrm bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/bitlbee-common.postrm --- bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/bitlbee-common.postrm +++ bitlbee-3.0.5/debian/bitlbee-common.postrm @@ -14,3 +14,3 @@ -deluser --system --remove-home bitlbee || true +deluser --system bitlbee || true rm -rf /var/lib/bitlbee ## deluser doesn't seem to do this for homedirs in /var
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