On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > * Use of ucf in postrm during a purge, without checking that ucf > is installed. Since ucf is not an essential package, postrm > during purge cannot rely on it. As it happens, I think it might > be good to have ucf (or a subset of it) as an essential package, > since this error happens a lot. So assuming that we're stuck with the current implementation for a bit where ucf is not part of essential, I do wonder if checking whether ucf is installed is actually the correct thing to do in postrm purge. The state prior to purge is defined as "config files"; the difference between config files state and "purged" is whether there are still config files left on the system. If the package can't actually succeed in removing its config files because ucf is not installed, isn't it *correct* for the postrm purge command to fail? I.e., I think it's more of a bug to allow dpkg to put the package into "purged" state leaving orphaned config files behind than it is for postrm purge to fail and leave the package in "config files" state. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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