Package: sfs-client
Version: 1:0.8-0+pre20050819.1-2.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The postrm for sfs-client (all versions from Woody through to Sid!)
leaves dangling rc[0-6].d symlinks after a purge, because it calls:
case "$1" in
[...]
purge)
if [ -f /etc/init.d/sfs-client ]; then
update-rc.d sfs-client remove >>/dev/null
fi
;;
But that initscript just got deleted; and if it had somehow avoided
this fate, it would ipso facto be pointless to call update-rc.d -
see man page:
# When invoked with the remove option, update-rc.d removes any links
# in the /etc/rc<runlevel>.d directories to the script
# /etc/init.d/<name>. The script must have been deleted already.
# If the script is still present then update-rc.d aborts with an
# error message.
Policy 9.3.3.1 gives an example of how this is done (paragraph 4),
but there's no "must" - indeed, the RTFM directive even comes with a
"please".
And what's that ">>/dev/null" about? Worried that plain ">" might
truncate it to zero length? The standard dh_installinit idiom is:
if [ "$1" = "purge" ] ; then
update-rc.d <name> remove >/dev/null || exit 0
fi
which avoids letting muffled non-removals mysteriously crash dpkg.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.xamanek
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages sfs-client depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-1+b1 GCC support library
ii libgmp3c2 4.1.4-10 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libsfs0c2 1:0.8-0+pre20050819.1-2.1 Self-Certifying File System shared
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-1+b1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii python 2.3.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o
ii sfs-common 1:0.8-0+pre20050819.1-2.1 Self-Certifying File System common
sfs-client recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru sfs-0.8-0+pre20050819.1.pristine/debian/sfs-client.postrm
sfs-0.8-0+pre20050819.1/debian/sfs-client.postrm
--- sfs-0.8-0+pre20050819.1.pristine/debian/sfs-client.postrm 2006-05-11
00:54:46.000000000 +0100
+++ sfs-0.8-0+pre20050819.1/debian/sfs-client.postrm 2006-05-11
00:58:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
;;
purge)
- if [ -f /etc/init.d/sfs-client ]; then
- update-rc.d sfs-client remove >>/dev/null
- fi
+ update-rc.d sfs-client remove >/dev/null || exit 0
;;
upgrade)
