Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.212
Severity: grave
Justification: may cause data loss
Dear pbuilder Maintainers,
pbuilder fails to configure on wheezy (and sid) if /etc/pbuilderrc is a
symlink to /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc after it replaces
/etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc with a symlink despite pbuilder/rewrite is set
to false.
* What led up to the situation?
I have my pbuilder in a git repository. Hence the complete
/etc/pbuilder/ is under version control while /etc/pbuilderrc is not,
but a symlink to /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc (to have it under version
control).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I upgraded today pbuilder from 0.211 to 0.212. It asked me via debconf
if it should update pbuilderrc and I denied that question.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Setting up pbuilder (0.212) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pbuilder.config: 40: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pbuilder.config:
cannot create /etc/pbuilderrc: Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing pbuilder (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
pbuilder
And, even worse: My real pbuilderrc has been deleted despite
pbuilder/rewrite being set to false:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 21:53 /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc -> ../pbuilderrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 16 13:33 /etc/pbuilderrc -> pbuilder/pbuilderrc
If I wouldn't have /etc/pbuilder/ in git but choosen that layout for
other reasons (and would have no other means of backup), my handcrafted
pbuilderrc would have been lost.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That it just doesn't touch my handcrafted pbuilderrc independent of its
location and that it still would have looked like before:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 858 Sep 30 14:20 /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 16 13:33 /etc/pbuilderrc -> pbuilder/pbuilderrc
(A "git checkout pbuilderrc" and then a "dpkg --configure --pending"
solved the issue for me. Nevertheless this shouldn't happen.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.175
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.9
ii coreutils 8.13-3.2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46
ii debianutils 4.3.2
ii debootstrap 1.0.42
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.8
ii wget 1.13.4-3
Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii devscripts 2.12.4
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1
Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii cowdancer 0.70
ii gdebi-core 0.8.5
pn pbuilder-uml <none>
-- debconf information:
pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/
pbuilder/nomirror:
pbuilder/rewrite: false
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