Package: dbconfig-common Version: 1.8.47+nmu1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
While troubleshooting issues during an upgrade of roundcube from squeeze to wheezy (tracked in Bug#708339), I noticed that when an upgrade fails and is retried, dbconfig-common will take a new backup and override the previous one. This leads to a backup that has partially-applied upgrades and can't be used to restore to the initial (pre-upgrade) state. creating database backup in /var/cache/dbconfig-common/backups/roundcube_0.3.1-6.mysql. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.5-1. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.6+dfsg-1. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.7-1. ... [then failed and retried] ... creating database backup in /var/cache/dbconfig-common/backups/roundcube_0.3.1-6.mysql. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.5-1. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.6+dfsg-1. applying upgrade sql for 0.3.1-6 -> 0.7-1. ... -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.33-kvm-i386-20111128-dirty (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dbconfig-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3 dbconfig-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages dbconfig-common suggests: ii mysql-client 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 ii mysql-client-5.5 [virtual-mysql-client] 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 -- debconf information: dbconfig-common/remote-questions-default: false dbconfig-common/pgsql/revertconf: false dbconfig-common/internal/skip-preseed: false dbconfig-common/db/dbname: dbconfig-common/pgsql/manualconf: dbconfig-common/dbconfig-remove: true dbconfig-common/mysql/method: unix socket dbconfig-common/upgrade-backup: true dbconfig-common/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident dbconfig-common/upgrade-error: abort dbconfig-common/purge: false dbconfig-common/db/basepath: dbconfig-common/install-error: abort dbconfig-common/pgsql/no-empty-passwords: dbconfig-common/pgsql/admin-user: postgres dbconfig-common/dbconfig-install: true dbconfig-common/dbconfig-reinstall: false dbconfig-common/remote/host: dbconfig-common/pgsql/changeconf: false dbconfig-common/remote/newhost: dbconfig-common/missing-db-package-error: abort dbconfig-common/dbconfig-upgrade: true dbconfig-common/pgsql/no-user-choose-other-method: dbconfig-common/internal/reconfiguring: false dbconfig-common/passwords-do-not-match: dbconfig-common/remove-error: abort dbconfig-common/remember-admin-pass: false dbconfig-common/mysql/admin-user: root dbconfig-common/pgsql/method: unix socket dbconfig-common/pgsql/authmethod-user: dbconfig-common/database-type: dbconfig-common/db/app-user: dbconfig-common/remote/port: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org