Bug#82407: severity 82407 wishlist
severity 82407 wishlist
retitle 82407 Please don't leave behind unpacked files on install abort
thanks
> so dpkg won't install erlang-doc-html when erlang is installed
> but it leaves unpacked files from erlang-doc-html on disk:
There is a bug in the erlang and/or erlang-doc-html packages,
not in dpkg. Policy 6.5 describes the installation process,
and describes what happens when one package contains files
of the same name as another. In your log, dpkg correctly
detected the conflict and aborted the installation of
erlang-doc-html after unpacking its files. The
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/mnesia_session-1.1.3/info file was
presumably left unchanged. (If not, then there *is* a bug
in dpkg.)
We may interpret this as a wishlist item, the wish being
that, when a package contains files that would overwrite
those of another package, the package either not be unpacked,
or else un-unpacked after being unpacked.
> apt falls over if a status file contains a package with
> Status: not-installed and a version number if the package
> is no longer available (bug #87390)
Bug #87390 was closed and presumably fixed, so this part
of the report needn't concern us here.
You might consider filing a report against erlang-doc-html
reporting the file-overwrite problem. However, I just
checked and a similar report has already been filed.
--
Thomas
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