Control: tag -1 moreinfo Re: Andreas Beckmann 2019-08-25 <156677006728.19083.14847313544790792807.report...@zam581.zam.kfa-juelich.de> > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge. > According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the depends being available > during purge, only the essential packages are available for sure.
> + RET=10 postgresql-9.4/postrm_purge_data doesn't exist > + return 10 > dpkg: error processing package postgresql-9.4 (--purge): > subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > postgresql-9.4 > > The template does not get registered because postinst does not load > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule. > In buster this is done by /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions > but in jessie the postinst has to do it manually Hmm. It's true that jessie's /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions doesn't have the code, but even with jessie's version, I can't reproduce the problem. After installing postgresql-9.4, debconf-get-selections has [1] # PostgreSQL-Verzeichnisse entfernen, wenn das Paket endgültig gelöscht wird? postgresql-9.4 postgresql-9.4/postrm_purge_data boolean true ... and purging postgresql-9.4 correctly asks. Note that the postrm *does* load debconf: if [ "$1" = purge ] && [ -d "/etc/postgresql/$VERSION" ] && [ "$(ls /etc/postgresql/$VERSION)" ]; then # can't load debconf from a function if [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule fi purge_package fi #DEBHELPER# I can put the debconf code into the postinst as well, but before I do that, I'd like to understand if that is really the problem. The postinst doesn't use debconf, only the postrm. Christoph [1] It's in German even if I remove po-debconf and debconf-i18n before installing anything. Huh.