Hi, On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:44:17AM +0200, S Berder wrote: > Package: nsd3 > Version: 3.2.5-1 > Severity: important > > When using 'apt-get remove --purge nsd3', the /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride file > is left in an unstable state. > Reproduced the problem several times by installing the package and > removing/purging it. > After the remove/purge, any further install fails. > > After 'apt-get remove --purge nsd3' : > # cat /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride > > nsd nsd 755 /var/lib/nsd3 > nsd nsd 750 /etc/nsd3 > nsd nsd 640 /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf > [...] > # apt-get install package > [...] > Preconfiguring packages ... > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > syntax error: unknown user 'nsd' in statoverride file > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
This is because the postrm script removes the nsd user before it removes the stat overrides. Attached patch fixes this (and also suppresses a spurious warning when /var/lib/nsd3 was empty and thus automatically removed). Would this be a candidate for proposed-updates as it fixes an installability bug? Regards, -- Jeroen Schot
--- debian/postrm.orig 2011-03-30 14:13:56.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/postrm 2011-04-07 14:35:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@
if test "$1" = "purge"; then
spool=/var/lib/nsd3
- deluser --quiet nsd > /dev/null || true
rm -f $spool/nsd.db $spool/ixfr.db $spool/xfrd.state
- rmdir $spool || true
+ rmdir $spool 2>/dev/null || true
unset_perms /var/lib/nsd3
unset_perms /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf
unset_perms /etc/nsd3
+
+ deluser --quiet nsd > /dev/null || true
fi
exit 0
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