Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts
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
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