Your message dated Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:49:29 +0000
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and subject line Bug#992540: fixed in plocate 1.1.9-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #992540,
regarding mlocate: old conffile not removed due to error from
dpkg-maintscript-helper
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Package: mlocate
Version: 1.1.9-1
I noticed a strange error upgrading mlocate from 0.26-5 to 1.1.9-1:
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| Preparing to unpack .../mlocate_1.1.9-1_all.deb ...
| dpkg-query: package 'mlocate' is not installed
| Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archive files contents.
| Unpacking mlocate (1.1.9-1) over (0.26-5) ...
`----
And the obsolete conffile /etc/cron.daily/mlocate was not removed as
intended. Since I could not make anything out of the error message, I
asked on the #debian-dpkg IRC channel and received this explanation
(guillem is the dpkg maintainer, zwenna is me):
,----
| <guillem> zwenna: ok so I guess the dpkg-query call is coming from
| dpkg-maintscript-helper
| <guillem> hmm perhaps wrong arch-qualification as the package seems to have
| switched from arch any to all?
| <guillem> that would look like the problem yes
| <guillem> zwenna: so I think what happens is that: rm_conffile in the new
| package preinst does not specify the package name so it gets
| automatically inferred to be mlocate:all which does not match the
| arch:any instance
| <guillem> zwenna: the rm_conffile call seems would need to pass explicitly a
| non-arch-qualified package name
`----
So it seems you have to specify the package name in
debian/mlocate.maintscript to rectify the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.60-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: plocate
Source-Version: 1.1.9-2
Done: Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
plocate, 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.
Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated plocate package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:19:53 +0200
Source: plocate
Architecture: source
Version: 1.1.9-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]>
Closes: 992540
Changes:
plocate (1.1.9-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Specify the package name (mlocate) explicitly in mlocate.maintscript,
so that it is not wrongly inferred to be mlocate:all (since mlocate
changes from Arch: any to Arch: all on upgrade to the dummy mlocate
package from plocate). (Closes: #992540)
* In mlocate.postinst, remove mlocate.db and /var/lib/mlocate.
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