Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.83 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks unrelated software
I have tagged this bug as critical because the post removal script is not idempotent (policy requirement) and because aptitude install and remove operations fail as long as apt-listchanges postremoval script fails. Before upgrading from lenny to squeeze I have started by upgrading aptitude. Due to dependencies, aptitude tells me to remove apt-listchanges. I say ok. During upgrade of aptitude and removal of apt-listchanges the following error appears: Desinstalando apt-listchanges ... mv: no se puede efectuar `stat' sobre «/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges»: No existe el fichero o el directorio dpkg: error al procesar apt-listchanges (--remove): el subproceso post-removal script devolvió el código de salida de error 1 i.e., /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/20listchanges doesn't exist. That's true. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges.disabled also doesn't exist. What I have here is /etc/apt/listchanges.conf instead. Then I run manually /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-listchanges.prerm and it runs ok. Then I run /varlib/dpkg/info/apt-listchanges.postrm and get the same error. It gets solved when I change the folowing line: if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then - mv $hook $hook.disabled + test -e $hook && mv $hook $hook.disabled fi This way the script is idempotent (it can be run several times without failing). Thank you very much for your great work at Debian. Best regards, Gonzalo. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt-listchanges depends on: ii apt 0.8.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o pn python-apt <none> (no description available) ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages apt-listchanges recommends: ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon Versions of packages apt-listchanges suggests: ii elvis [www-browser] 2.2.0-10 powerful clone of the vi/ex text e ii emacs20 [www-browser] 20.7-13.3 The GNU Emacs editor. ii epiphany-gecko [www-brows 2.22.3-9 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck ii galeon [www-browser] 2.0.6-2.1 GNOME web browser for advanced use ii lynx-ssl [www-browser] 1:2.8.4.1b-3.1 Text-mode WWW Browser supporting S ii python-glade2 2.12.1-6 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gtk2 2.12.1-6 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+lenny1 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii xfce4-terminal [x-termina 0.2.8-5 Xfce terminal emulator ii xterm [x-terminal-emulato 235-2 X terminal emulator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org