On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:41:58PM +0100, Jan Prunk wrote:
> Package: onak
> Version: 0.3.4-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software

Please clarify this justification; what unrelated software is broken?

> onak fails to install on lenny platforms tested were sparc & i386.
> 
> gateway:/var/lib/mediawiki/images/thumb# aptitude install onak
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages have been automatically kept back:
>   apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common
>   libapt-pkg-perl libpq5 libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 mailx psmisc
>   snmp sysvinit-utils
>   The following packages have been kept back:
>     apt apt-utils aptitude cpio hostname initscripts libncurses5
>     libncursesw5 login ncurses-base ncurses-bin passwd phpmyadmin snmpd
>     sysv-rc sysvinit tzdata
>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>       onak
>       0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not
>       upgraded.
>       Need to get 349kB of archives. After unpacking 926kB will be used.
>       Writing extended state information... Done
>       Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main onak 0.3.4-1 [349kB]
>       Fetched 349kB in 1s (260kB/s)
>       Selecting previously deselected package onak.
>       (Reading database ... 23236 files and directories currently
>       installed.)
>       Unpacking onak (from .../onak_0.3.4-1_sparc.deb) ...

Does i386 fail in exactly the same way? Is the onak binary left
installed in /usr/bin? Can you run it or does it error out in some
manner if so?

>       Setting up onak (0.3.4-1) ...
>       Adding system user `onak' (UID 106) ...
>       Adding new user `onak' (UID 106) with group `nogroup' ...
>       Not creating home directory `/var/lib/onak'.
>       dpkg: error processing onak (--configure):
>        subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>        Errors were encountered while processing:
>         onak
>       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>       A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
>       Setting up onak (0.3.4-1) ...
>       The user `onak' already exists. Exiting.
>       dpkg: error processing onak (--configure):
>        subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status
>        1
>        Errors were encountered while processing:
>         onak
>         Reading package lists... Done
>         Building dependency tree
>         Reading state information... Done
>         Reading extended state information
>         Initializing package states... Done
>         Writing extended state information... Done
>         Reading task descriptions... Done
>         Building tag database... Done

J.

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