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Package: less
Version: 444-4
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Control: found -1 436-1
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on
the system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails
The leftover files are actually alternatives that were installed by the
package but have not been properly removed.
While there is ongoing discussion how to remove alternatives correctly
(see http://bugs.debian.org/71621 for details) the following strategy
should work for regular cases:
* 'postinst configure' always installs the alternative
* 'prerm remove' removes the alternative
* 'postrm remove' and 'postrm disappear' remove the alternative
In all other cases a maintainer script is invoked (e.g. upgrade,
deconfigure) the alternatives are not modified to preserve user
configuration.
Removing the alternative in 'prerm remove' avoids having a dangling link
once the actual file gets removed, but 'prerm remove' is not called in
all cases (e.g. unpacked but not configured packages or disappearing
packages) so the postrm must remove the alternative again
(update-alternatives gracefully handles removal of non-existing
alternatives).
Note that the arguments for adding and removing alternatives differ, for
removal it's 'update-alternatives --remove <name> <path>'.
Filing this as important as having a piuparts clean archive is a release
goal since lenny.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
2m12.2s DEBUG: Modified(uid, gid, mode, size, target):
/etc/alternatives/pager.1.gz (0, 0, l 120777, 29,
/usr/share/man/man1/more.1.gz) != (0, 0, l 120777, 29,
/usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz)
2m12.2s DEBUG: Modified(uid, gid, mode, size, target): /etc/alternatives/pager
(0, 0, l 120777, 9, /bin/more) != (0, 0, l 120777, 13, /usr/bin/less)
2m12.2s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have been modified:
/etc/alternatives/pager -> /bin/more not owned
/etc/alternatives/pager.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/more.1.gz not owned
This problem originates from the package in lenny which used
/usr/bin/less as the pager alternative. In squeeze his was switched to
/bin/less, but no migration path has been added to remove the obsolete
alternative on upgrades.
I would suggest to add
update-alternatives --quiet --remove pager /usr/bin/less
to the postinst (after adding the /bin/less alternative). This can be
done unconditionally.
This change needs to get into one stable release.
cheers,
Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: less
Source-Version: 458-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
less, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]> (supplier of updated less package)
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:35:17 +0100
Source: less
Binary: less
Architecture: source mips
Version: 458-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]>
Description:
less - pager program similar to more
Closes: 694051
Changes:
less (458-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* debian/control:
Priority: important
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
* debian/postinst: add (after adding the /bin/less alternative):
update-alternatives --quiet --remove pager /usr/bin/less
This change needs to get into one stable release.
Patch by Andreas Beckmann.
Closes: #694051.
* debian/rules:
export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
* Refresh patches.
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