On 14/11/06 at 10:34 -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: xtide-data > > Version: 20040203-2 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: makes package uninstallable > > Usertags: grid5000 > > > > Hi, > > > > During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a > > problem with your package. Running those following commands in a clean > > etch chroot: > > > > apt-get install xtide-data > > > > apt-get remove libice6 libpng12-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 > > libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 x11-common xtide > > > > dpkg --purge libice6 libpng12-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 > > libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 x11-common xtide > > > > dpkg --purge xtide-data > > > > Causes the last command to fail: > > (Reading database ... 7223 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing xtide-data ... > > Purging configuration files for xtide-data ... > > invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/xttpd not found. > > dpkg: error processing xtide-data (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 100 > > xtide-data doesn't strictly depend on xtide, but the init.d script > "appears" to assume that it is installed since it fails to find xtide's > /usr/sbin/xttpd file. This is strange because /etc/init.d/xttpd > contains: During the "postrm purge" call dependancies for xtide are not installed anymore. Your postrm script doesn't make any difference between "remove" and "purge", which is obviously wrong. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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