reassign 383063 dbconfig-common thanks I am following the design set forth in the dbconfig-common docs and examples. You appear to be referencing section 7.2 of policy.
I am reassinging this to dbconfig-common since I can't do anything about it if dbconfig-common requires packages to act this way (as it appears to). I can't really work out what the sane thing to do in postrm might be since I can understand why dbconfig-common requires things to be pulled out there. If the dbconfig-common maintainers believe that there is already a way around this, I would ask them to please document it and update the example files they install in /usr/share/doc/dbconfig-common so as to not encourage developers to do things the wrong way. Thanks, -- John On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:07:08PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Package: bacula-director-pgsql > Version: 1.38.11-2 > Severity: serious > > (Also in -1, and no doubt many previous versions) > > The postrm script always uses dbconfig-common. Even if the first > parameter is 'purge' (policy says you may only use Essential: yes > packages in that case). Similarly, you can't use it in the abort-* > targets either (though I don't see anywhere policy explitly says so). > Try the following to see why (in a chroot, I'd hope): > > # dpkg --purge dbconfig-common > # dpkg -i bacula-director-pgsql*deb > # dpkg -i bacula-director-pgsql*deb > # dpkg --remove bacula-director-pgsql > > dpkg will inform you that bacula-director-pgsql is in a very bad state > (what it calls half-installed) and to install it again in order remove > it. Which of course you can't do, because the prerm fails out. Twice. > And then again when dpkg tries to do an error unwind. Leaving the > package half-installed. > > (To fix the chroot, install dbconfig common --- using dpkg, apt-get > won't work anymore --- then install bacula-director-pgsql, then you can > remove both. You probably already knew this, of course.) > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
