reassign 596369 dpkg thanks Hi,
On 09/10/2010 09:06 PM, Steven Malin wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-114
> Severity: normal
>
> if i do a dpkg-reconfigure on the cron package i get the following messages:
>
> ---snip---
> r...@bluewave:~# dpkg-reconfigure cron
> Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron failed!
> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package
> r...@bluewave:~# echo $?
> 1
cron 3.0pl1-114 added calls to dpkg-maintscript-helper to safely remove
an obsolete conffile. The following snippet is present in preinst,
postinst and postrm:
dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile \
/etc/cron.monthly/standard "3.0pl1-113" -- "$@"
As dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) says that the package name is optional, it
was ommitted. Guessing this as a possible cause for this bug, I added
it in a test build:
dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile \
/etc/cron.monthly/standard "3.0pl1-113" cron -- "$@"
with the following result:
r...@devel:/tmp/cron# dpkg-reconfigure cron
Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron failed!
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: environment variable
DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME is required
DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME not being set would explain why the first approach
failed, I guess... #546577 looks related to this.
Regards,
Christian
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