Hi Chris and Ruben, Could either of you please have a look at this bug in cpio (you are listed as Uploaders)? Even if it is just in the form of "ENOTME, NMU welcome".
Note that Anibal is MIA (per #925021). Thanks, ~Niels On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 18:05:00 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Control: clone -1 -2 > Control: reassign -2 tar 1.30+dfsg-5 > Control: retitle -2: tar: prerm deletes /usr/sbin/rmt in --merged-usr > environment > Control: retitle -1: cpio: prerm deletes /usr/sbin/rmt in --merged-usr > environment > > On 2019-04-09 11:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > 0m17.9s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: > > /etc/rmt -> /usr/sbin/rmt (tar) > > > > 0m22.0s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: > > /usr/sbin/rmt -> /etc/alternatives/rmt not owned > > This is caused by the prerm script which contains this not merged-usr > aware code: > > if [ "$1" = remove ]; then > update-alternatives --remove mt /bin/mt-gnu > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > rm -f /sbin/rmt > fi > fi > > Cloning the bug to tar, since its prerm contains a similar construct. > (And I don't mean the update-alternatives call ...) > > remove|deconfigure) > update-alternatives --remove rmt /usr/sbin/rmt-tar > if test -L /sbin/rmt && test /sbin/rmt -ef /usr/sbin/rmt; then > rm -f /sbin/rmt > fi > ;; > > Probable use > > if ! test -L /sbin && test -L /sbin/rmt && ... > > > Andreas > >

