reassign 695260 lmodern thanks On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:32:24AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > reassign 695260 dpkg > tags 695260 - moreinfo unreproducible > retitle 695260 dpkg-maintscript-helper breaks when rm_conffile file is missing > thanks
> Dear dpkg maintainers, > in our lmodern package we use dpkg-maintscript helper to remove the > old lmodern.hints file (transition away from defoma). The code is > generated by having debian/lmodern.maintscript containing: > rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints 2.004.1-3 > rm_conffile /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg 2.004.1-3.1 > which generated in the postinst script: > dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints > 2.004.1-3 -- "$@" > dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10lmodern.cfg > 2.004.1-3.1 -- "$@" > > Now it seems that if out of whatever reason - in this current case it is > hard to say why, but the admin might have removed the file which is an > allowed procedure - the file is missing, the call to dpkg-maintscript-helper > fails. I quote from the bug report we got: > > Configurazione di lmodern (2.004.1-3)... > > /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty. > > dpkg: errore nell'elaborare lmodern (--configure): > > il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo > > stato di errore 1 Er, read the version number. This is trying to configure the *stable* version of the lmodern package. This has nothing to do with dpkg-maintscript-helper, which is only applied in the *testing* version of the package. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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