Bug#881871: stretch-pu: package bacula/7.4.4+dfsg-6

[Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> On 01/15/2018 08:32 AM, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
>> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 00:02:29 +0100, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2) Bug #880529: When updating from jessie to stretch, the package
>>>> "bacula-director-common" will be removed, but the postrm will stay
>>>> around. Upon purging this package, postrm unconditionally removes the
>>>> main bacula configuration file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf, leaving
>>>> bacula unusable. We fix this by introducing a transitional package that
>>>> can then be safely removed.
>>>>
>>> It sounds like this won't solve the issue for anyone who has already
>>> upgraded but hasn't yet purged bacula-director-common.  Couldn't
>>> bacula-director's postinst neuter the old postrm instead?
>> 
>> Are you sure? I'd say that these people will get the upgrade to the
>> transitional package and this will remove the old postrm.
>> 
> How would they get an update to a removed package?  (Yes, I'm pretty sure.)

I see your point now. My proposed solution only helps people that still
have the package installed.

I'll work on a better solution.

Regards,

Carsten