tag 857173 + patch thanks Hi,
This patch should do the job, I'll test it tomorrow if nobody beats me. Cheers, Laurent Bigonville
diff -Nru irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/changelog irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/changelog --- irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/changelog 2016-12-31 11:55:09.000000000 +0100 +++ irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/changelog 2017-03-08 23:13:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +irqbalance (1.1.0-2.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix the the reinstallation of the package if was removed but not purged, + in that case the preinst script is called with the both the "install" and + version parameter, we should consider this as an upgrade (Closes: #857173) + + -- Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 23:13:43 +0100 + irqbalance (1.1.0-2.2) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/irqbalance.preinst irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/irqbalance.preinst --- irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/irqbalance.preinst 2016-12-21 16:05:03.000000000 +0100 +++ irqbalance-1.1.0/debian/irqbalance.preinst 2017-03-08 23:13:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ INSTALL_FLAG_FILE=/run/irqbalance.dpkg-install # tell irqbalance.config if we're upgrading or installing since it can't tell. -if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then +# if we are reinstalling the package after it has been removed but not purged +# we should threat that case as the upgrade case as we need to preserve the +# service state. +if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "install" -a "$2" != "" ]; then touch $UPGRADE_FLAG_FILE fi if [ "$1" = "install" ]; then @@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ # proper conffile needs to be taken into consideration here to avoid # blatantly overwriting it on upgrades. # (We'll do the actuan conversion in config/postinst.) -if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] && [ "$2" != "" ] && \ +if [ "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "install" ] && [ "$2" != "" ] && \ [ -e /etc/default/irqbalance ] && \ dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "1.1.0-2.1~" then
