On 01/31/2012 08:01 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 31.01.2012 18:14, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently >> fail the piuparts test with a 'ucf: command not found' error in >> wheezy and sid. Currently 22 binary packages from 16 source >> packages are affected. >> >> Most of these errors happen during the 'postrm purge' phase >> because non-essential programs are called by the maintainer >> script without checking their existance. >> > > Interesting timing. initscripts started depending on ucf just a few > days ago, which makes ucf quasi-essential.
Unless you are going to argue to add it to the essential set, I can't see why that matters. It's still wrong to use non-essential packages in postrm unconditionally. One could even argue that an essential package should not use ucf unconditionally and have a sane fall back when it's not available. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f283c93.7060...@debian.org
