Package: apache2-dev Version: 2.4.2-2 Severity: wishlist If a package Breaks another package and the breaking package is installed, the package that is broken will not necessarily be removed. It may only be deconfigured. Part of the definition of Breaks (as opposed to Conflicts) is that the packages may co-exist in unconfigured states because there isn't an actual file conflict preventing simultaneous unpacking.
However, currently dh_apache2 only disables a module in postrm on remove or purge. If an Apache module package is deconfigured because another package declares a Breaks on that package, the module may therefore be left both installed and active in the Apache configuration. Given that the most likely use of Breaks would be to indicate that something about the package causes the Apache module that is broken to stop working, become unsafe, or otherwise not possible to use simultaneously, I think it would make more sense to deconfigure the module in this case by removing it from the Apache configuration. I believe, from a brief look at what the Apache maintainer script helper does, that this could be implemented by moving the default dismod action from postrm to prerm and ensuring that it runs for all prerm actions *except* upgrade and failed-upgrade (since I don't think you want to unconfigure the module and reconfigure the module on every module package upgrade). The current prerm actions other than upgrade and failed-upgrade are remove and deconfigure; I'm not sure whether it would be safer to run this action only on remove or deconfigure, or to run it on any action other than upgrade and failed-upgrade. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apache2-dev depends on: ii apache2 2.4.2-2 ii debhelper 9.20120608 ii libapr1-dev 1.4.6-3 ii libaprutil1-dev 1.4.1-2 ii openssl 1.0.1c-3 ii perl 5.14.2-12 apache2-dev recommends no packages. apache2-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
