Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: unblock
unblock xml2rfc/1.36-5 The squeeze version of xml2rfc fails to remove /etc/sgml/xml2rfc.cat on either remove or purge. Upgrading such a system and then installing wheezy's xml2rfc results in a conffile prompt as discovered by Andreas Beckmann using piuparts in #680291. Note that the behaviour of the squeeze package is a policy violation. The updated version solves the conffile prompt for the left over file. I attched the full debdiff between the version currently in wheezy and the fixing version in sid. Helmut
diff -Nru xml2rfc-1.36/debian/changelog xml2rfc-1.36/debian/changelog --- xml2rfc-1.36/debian/changelog 2012-08-31 20:16:57.000000000 +0200 +++ xml2rfc-1.36/debian/changelog 2012-10-15 01:31:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +xml2rfc (1.36-5) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * Always remove /etc/sgml/xml2rfc.cat when it is not a conffile. + (Closes: #680291) + + -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:30:24 -0400 + xml2rfc (1.36-4) unstable; urgency=low * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no changes needed) diff -Nru xml2rfc-1.36/debian/preinst xml2rfc-1.36/debian/preinst --- xml2rfc-1.36/debian/preinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ xml2rfc-1.36/debian/preinst 2012-10-15 01:29:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +#!/bin/sh +set -e + +# xml2rfc version 1.35-1 as of Debian squeeze did not properly clean its +# package catalog upon removal or purge. This results in a conffile prompt when +# installing a dh_installcatalogs managed version. This is also known as +# #680291. The issue affects the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy. Once wheezy is +# released. This preinst file should be removed unless something else is added +# to it. +CENTCAT=/etc/sgml/xml2rfc.cat +if test -f "$CENTCAT" && ! dpkg-query -S "$CENTCAT" >/dev/null 2>&1; then + mv "$CENTCAT" "$CENTCAT.old" +fi + +#DEBHELPER#
