Bug#851108: piuparts should check for leftover binfmts

2017-01-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2017-01-13 19:02, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Wouldn't it be enough, to check whether the contents of > /var/lib/binfmts > (which seems is that place) change after purging a package? > If something's left behind there, it will be legacy and come up again > after the next reboot. If there

Bug#851108: piuparts should check for leftover binfmts

2017-01-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 16:41 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > binfmts are tricky with piuparts, since they are registered in the > kernel and with only chroots we don't have sufficient separation > between > host and piuparts test or inbetween piuparts tests ... Sure, but the kernel has no way to

Bug#851108: piuparts should check for leftover binfmts

2017-01-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2017-01-12 05:13, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Quite a number of packages over and over leave back their > binfmt registrations (i.e. what one manages via the binfmt-support > package). binfmts are tricky with piuparts, since they are registered in the kernel and with only chroots we

Bug#851108: piuparts should check for leftover binfmts

2017-01-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: piuparts Version: 0.73 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hey. Quite a number of packages over and over leave back their binfmt registrations (i.e. what one manages via the binfmt-support package). openjdk and LLVM are just some notorious examples which do it (despite of bug reports)