Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-23 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-23 04:07, Ian Jackson wrote: If you absolutely want a workaround an obvious one is to bodge a fake deluser into the piuparts setup. I don't think working around bugs without properly documenting them first ist a good solution. Especially for sid where we do much more pedantic tests

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-02-04 08:55, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du jeudi 02 février 2012, vers Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de disait : I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently fail the piuparts test with a 'deluser/delgroup: command not found'

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-22 13:50, Ian Jackson wrote: Andreas Beckmann writes (Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts): I have revised the template to include a link to the discussion about not removing system users on package removal: I think it would

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes (Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts): I have revised the template to include a link to the discussion about not removing system users on package removal: I think it would be better to wait with this MBF until we have

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes (Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts): Better suggestions welcome. I'd like to give advice how to fix the buggy postrm scripts *now* while being aware that general changes in user handling may be needed later. If you

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-03 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du jeudi 02 février 2012, vers 13:11, Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de disait : I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently fail the piuparts test with a 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' error in wheezy and sid. Currently 17

mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently fail the piuparts test with a 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' error in wheezy and sid. Currently 17 binary packages from 15 source packages are affected. Most of these errors happen during the 'postrm purge' phase because

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes (mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts): Most of these errors happen during the 'postrm purge' phase because non-essential programs are called by the maintainer script without checking their existance. We had a

RE : mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-02 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
We had a conversation (here I think) last year about whether programs should be trying to automatically remove users in their postrm. IIRC the conclusion of that discussion the answer was that they should not, at least in the default case. We should double check this, before you submit your

Re: RE : mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 05:09:42PM +, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: We had a conversation (here I think) last year about whether programs should be trying to automatically remove users in their postrm. IIRC the conclusion of that discussion the answer was that they should not, at

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-02-02 Thread Josh Triplett
Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 05:09:42PM +, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: In that case you got his kind of piuparts error [1], if you did not remove the homedir of the previously added user. What is the right fice for this ? The proper way to fix this is to change