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and subject line Bug#813244: fixed in heroes 0.21-14
has caused the Debian Bug report #813244,
regarding heroes-sdl: leaves alternatives after purge: /etc/alternatives/heroes
-> /usr/games/heroes-sdl
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Package: heroes-sdl
Version: 0.21-13
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
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:
https://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 https://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...):
1m28.8s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system:
/etc/alternatives/heroes -> /usr/games/heroes-sdl not owned
This was observed on an upgrade from 0.21-10 to 0.21-13. Since there
has been some package reorganization between these versions the use of
alternatives may have become obsolete and needs to be cleaned up in the
preinst of the remaining "main" package.
cheers,
Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: heroes
Source-Version: 0.21-14
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
heroes, 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.
Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> (supplier of updated heroes package)
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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:44:22 +0100
Source: heroes
Binary: heroes heroes-sdl heroes-common
Architecture: source
Version: 0.21-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Description:
heroes - Collect powerups and avoid your opponents' trails
heroes-common - transitional package for heroes
heroes-sdl - transitional package for heroes
Closes: 813244 816269
Changes:
heroes (0.21-14) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Stephen Kitt ]
* Handle heroes' permissions in the dh_fixperms override, for
architecture-dependent builds only.
* Preserve the original manpages, help2man can't rebuild the new ones
on buildds.
* Allow building with GCC 6.
* Avoid attempting to rebuild doc/heroes.texi, the build isn't
compatible with current autogen (closes: #816269).
.
[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* Remove leftover heroes alternative (closes: #813244).
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