[Popcon-developers] Bug#798941: /etc/cron.d directory is necessary for installation

[ballombe@debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:23:58PM +0900, Jonny wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.63
> 
> Hi,
> 
> maintainer script will stop.
> 
> Setting up popularity-contest (1.63) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/popularity-contest.postinst: 46: /var/lib/dpkg/info/populari
> ty-contest.postinst: cannot create /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest: Directory no
> nexistent
> dpkg: error processing package popularity-contest (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  popularity-contest
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ah yes, I did not anticipated that.
The postinst need to create if it does not exist yet.

Thanks for your report, and sorry for the trouble!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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