Re: Issues with Multi-Arch:same packages on purge
On 2013-04-22 21:38, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2013-04-22 07:31, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> I guess a way to detect those could be piuparts runs that install
>> multiple instances of Multi-Arch:same packages, purge just one of
>> them, and compare that the packages created by the first instance
>> are not removed, and that other files do not get modified. Andreas,
>> would that be possible?
>
> Actually I already tried something similar some time ago, although I
...
> Checking for
> purge-problems, too, shouldn't be too difficult.
So far I only found 3 multiarch related maintainer script problems in
wheezy:
#706167: qimhangul-qt4: improper alternative handling in M-A:same package
#706185: libpam-ldap: purging one architecture of this M-A:same package
removes configuration still needed by the other architectures
#706182: libnss-ldap: purging deletes shared config file
/etc/libnss-ldap.conf still in use by other architectures
A proper solution for all these needs to be found and multiarch
documentation should be enhanced to clarify how (not) to handle such
things in maintainer scripts of M-A: same packages
These bugs were tagged wheezy-can-defer and wheezy-ignore for now, but
we should try to find a solution for wheezy r1.
Andreas
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