clone 675309 -1 reassign -1 sgml-base thanks On 31.05.2012 15:52, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 31.05.2012 13:47, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 31.05.2012 09:20, Robert Luberda wrote: >>> po4a or any other program that calls nsgmls fails with: >>> nsgmls:/etc/sgml/mutter-common.cat:8:8:E: cannot open >>> "/usr/share/sgml/mutter-common/catalog" (No such file or directory) >>> >>> I can see in the changelog for 3.4.1-2 that removal of >>> mutter-common.catalog file was intentional but >>> /etc/sgml/mutter-common.cat still referes to it. >> >> Since update-catalog was responsible for installing this file into >> /etc/sgml, I'm wondering if it isn't also update-catalog's job to clean >> up the conffile once the package is removed or it stops shipping the >> catalog file. > > In case of mutter-common the file /usr/share/sgml/mutter-common/catalog > is gone for good so I guess we can just forcefully remove > /etc/sgml/mutter-common.cat on upgrades. > > I'm wondering though, what to do about metacity-common, which exposes > the same problem if the package is removed, but not purged. > Cleaning up the conffile on "remove" might be tricky, since you can't > just delete it. You'd have to move it away / rename it and move it back > if the package is re-installed. > >> # cat /etc/sgml/metacity-common.cat >> CATALOG /usr/share/sgml/metacity-common/catalog >> # ls /usr/share/sgml/metacity-common/catalog >> ls: cannot access /usr/share/sgml/metacity-common/catalog: No such file >> or directory > > As said, those dangling conffiles in /etc/sgml are a more general > problem. I'm wondering if nsgmls should handle that more gracefully/in a > more robust way.
I completely missed that those files are not conffiles but completely managed by update-catalog via the maintainer scripts/dpkg triggers. I'm cloning and re-assignig this bug to sgml-base. It should handle the case of removed-but-not-purged packages in a way that it doesn't break existing software like nsgmls. As for mutter-common, I'll just rm -f the files on upgrade. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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