Your message dated Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:38:38 +0000
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and subject line Bug#694160: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #632334,
regarding dconf: Removing dconf leaves dangling symlinks: "run-parts: failed to
stat component /etc/cron.weekly/dconf: No such file or directory"
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Package: dconf
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: minor
After removing but not purging dconf, /etc/cron.weekly/dconf is a
dangling symlink on /usr/bin/dconf. Afterwards you will weekly get mails
arguing:
run-parts: failed to stat component /etc/cron.weekly/dconf: No such file
or directory
Please either
a) remove that symlink and make a shell script out of it which first
checks, if /usr/bin/dconf exists and only then calls it, or
b) remove that symlink in the postrm script on removal already.
I'd prefer a) as it's the cleaner way.
The issue can not be reproduced by just installing the package and
removing the package, as the symlink is created when dconf runs the
first time. (Which itself is a quite strange behaviour. I can't
pin-point it at the moment, but I'd expect that this behaviour violates
the Debian Policy. I therefore suggest to put the /etc/cron.weekly/dconf
shell script in the package and not to create on the first run.)
The postrm script does delete the symlink, but only on "purge", not on
"remove".
First reported against Ubuntu Natty at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dconf/+bug/804188, but also
present in Debian Sid et al.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dconf depends on:
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
dconf recommends no packages.
dconf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 0.5.1-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package dconf has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/694160
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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Luca Falavigna (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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