Re: 3.06-8 broken?
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:32:18PM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote:
> On Monday 28 October 2002 20:09, you wrote:
>
> > > So you did not see the debconf question about adding ocaml detecting
> > > lines to /etc/magic ?
>
> No.
>
> > > This seems logical with the other reports, i guess the real reason is
> > > that debian/ocaml.templates did not get copied over with the package.
> >
> > Could you try running :
> >
> > # export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer
> > # dpkg -i ocaml_3.06-8i_i386.deb
>
> Mine is the same as yours, now. This is like cheating, though, since I have
> already manually set executable the two debian scripts in my own unzipped
> ocaml source directory and run debian/postinst there and ocaml 3.06-8
> configured now on my machine. Now the problem cannot be reproduced anymore.
>
> To summarize, when I tried to upgrade from 3.06-7 to 3.06-8, ocaml could not
> be configured after ocaml-base was. That means ocaml-source,
> ocaml-native-compilers could not, either. Then I downgraded to 3.06-7, and
> then tried to upgrade again. I got the same error twice. While still
> downgraded, I set the two scripts executable. First just debian/postinst, and
> still got the same error in /tmp/log, then debian/config, and found the error
> gone. Then I upgraded to 3.06-8, and this time no error reported.
Ok, i have found the problem, and will upload a fixed version soon.
dh_debconfinstall was commented out in my debian/rules, and thus the
templates file not copied.
Thanks to you, stefano and sven koch for helping me find the cause of
this problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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