LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > or a bug in some >> > maintainer script or other; >> How a bug in a maintainer script could have the result that installing >> an arch-all package fails because an other arch-all package is not >> there, and how this can happen on only one particular machine of one >> particular architecture, this I fail to see. > > Simple. Buggy postrm (or was it prerm) fails, and the package is left > with all its files removed, but still marked as installed in dpkg. And > it never gets installed again. There have been a few packages like > this, and tetex-$mumble seems to ring a bell as one of the b0rken ones.
That might well be, and maybe even the new postrm or prerm scripts that I wrote from scratch suffer from that. But why does it only occur on the hppa buildd, then? And how could it be detected and fixed - of course I do remove and purge in a pbuilder chroot all the packages I upload. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer