Control: reopen -1
Hi!
Although I've not tested nor checked the affected code, the fix done
to close this cannot possibly be correct, see below. :)
On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 21:27:06 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 07:12:58 -0500
> From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <ke...@km6g.us>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: cron: postrm script fails because expected dpkg-statoverride is
> not present
> The postrm script in the current version of the cron package assumes the
> presence of a dpkg-statoverride for /usr/bin/crontab, but no such statoverride
> is present on my systems. As a result when I try to 'purge' the cron package
> the process fails.
I think the description might be read incorrectly. The error is not
that the dpkg-statoverride program is missing, as that's not possible
(w/o force) being part of dpkg which is an Essential package. But that
a statoverride entry setup by some package is missing.
> This results in the following output:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> cron*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (19: No such
> device)
> (Reading database ... 11054 files and directories currently installed.)
> Purging configuration files for cron (3.0pl1-154) ...
> dpkg-statoverride: warning: no override present
As can be seen here, the tool is executed and it runs, but it warns that
it cannot find the statoverride entry.
> dpkg: error processing package cron (--purge):
> installed cron package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit
> status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> cron
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postrm to remove the first section resolves
> the
> issue.
Adding a dependency on dpkg cannot have solved anything here.
Thanks,
Guillem
