Package: odbcinst Version: 2.2.14p2-5 Severity: serious Justification: makes odbcinst not very suitable for use in maintainer scripts
Hello, while I'm filing this bug as serious, feel free to downgrade the severity of this bug if you think it's appropiate. In any case imho a fix for this bug is worth to be included in wheezy. I've been working on the Virtuoso debian package. The maintainer scripts relies on odbc, the prerm script uses odbcinst with the -l option, thus: odbcinst -u -s -l -n VOS however, apparently it doesn't perform the operation like if "VOS" where a system DSN, but an user DSN. So I've just workarounded this bug using an evironnment variable which, according to a comment in the odbcinst source code, is suposed to override the program arguments: ODBCSEARCH=ODBC_SYSTEM_DSN odbcinst -u -s -l -n VOS When used this way I think it works as expected. We noticed this bug when we where trying to fix a a piuparts error, for more information, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677286 Also note that the reported gave kindly a quick list of other packages which _might_ be affected: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=odbcinst.*-l+filetype%3Ashell Thank you for your time looking into this.
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