On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:48:06PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi,
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge. > According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the depends being available > during purge, only the essential packages are available for sure. > > Filing this as important because a.) it's a clear policy violation (to > not clean up at purge) b.) having a piuparts clean archive is a release > goal since lenny and c.) this package being piuparts buggy blocks > packages depending on it from being tested by piuparts (and thus > possibly the detection of more severe problems). > > From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > Purging configuration files for bind9 (1:9.10.6+dfsg-5) ... > rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/bind': No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing package bind9 (--purge): > installed bind9 package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit > status 1 > > This was observed while testing the dms-wsgi package, nut just bind9 > itself. So a certain package combination seems to trigger it. This is caused by dms-core.postinst removing the data directory of a foreign package (bind9), which IME is an absolute no-go. https://sources.debian.org/src/dms/1.0.8-1.2/debian/dms-core.postrm/#L43 Cloning, reassigning and bumping severity. Bernhard
