Your message dated Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:20:51 +0200
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and subject line Program no longer shipped in dpkg
has caused the Debian Bug report #991192,
regarding dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: should be restartable
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991192: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991192
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.9
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-fsys-usrunmess
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
I tried to run dpkg-fsys-usrunmess from systemd’s emergency mode,
thinking that this would be safer, since nothing else would be
running. This tickled a bug in systemd (see #991185) and got
dpkg-fsys-usrunmess killed in the middle of its run—specifically,
during the ‘dpkg --pending --configure’ operation. As you can
probably imagine, this is a really bad time for the process to be
interrupted. I have a *lot* of experience cleaning up after breakage
in unstable and it still took me five hours this time.
In another bug, I suggested a stopgap measure for the specific thing
that went wrong with dpkg-fsys-usrunmess this time, but a more
thorough fix would be to make dpkg-fsys-usrunmess restartable. Each
phase of the operation could be made idempotent on a file-by-file
basis simply by ignoring failures due to the rename or whatever
already having happened, and in between phases it could checkpoint
itself in a file in the shadow directory.
If I get time this weekend I’ll try to come up with a patch.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-4
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii liblzma5 5.2.5-2
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
ii tar 1.34+dfsg-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 2.2.4
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1.22.12
The relevant program got removed from dpkg in the 1.22.12 release,
with:
https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=12e3bc2991ac27f73545a246bb95b84fb8d262c9
Closing, these reports.
Thanks,
Guillem
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