Bug#344538: hppa dependency problems on build of pdns

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> > or a bug in some
>> > maintainer script or other;
>> How a bug in a maintainer script could have the result that installing
>> an arch-all package fails because an other arch-all package is not
>> there, and how this can happen on only one particular machine of one
>> particular architecture, this I fail to see.
>
> Simple.  Buggy postrm (or was it prerm) fails, and the package is left
> with all its files removed, but still marked as installed in dpkg.  And
> it never gets installed again.  There have been a few packages like
> this, and tetex-$mumble seems to ring a bell as one of the b0rken ones.

That might well be, and maybe even the new postrm or prerm scripts that
I wrote from scratch suffer from that.  But why does it only occur on
the hppa buildd, then?

And how could it be detected and fixed - of course I do remove and purge
in a pbuilder chroot all the packages I upload.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer