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Bug#627068: marked as done (Issues arising from not running foreign preinst scripts)

Your message dated Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:20:10 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1093962: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #591518,
regarding Issues arising from not running foreign preinst scripts
to be marked as done.

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Package: multistrap
Version: 2.1.13
Severity: serious

base-passwd is an essential package. on a regular system, any package
that gets installed after base-passwd can expect /etc/passwd to be
existing and can therefore do stuff with users (e.g. calling a chown in
postinst) without having a depends on base-passwd.

during a multistrap run, all preinst scripts of the to be installed
packages are run first, then all postinst scripts. if a package is doing
stuff with users (e.g. calling a chown in postinst) and the postinst of
base-passwd is not run before that, /etc/passwd is missing, the postinst
fails and multistrap could not bootstrap.

means, it's not possible to multistrap any system that has any package
that is doing any user modification whatsoever. since these are quite a
few packages (legitimately!) in the archive doing that, multistrap is
essentially broken and can unfortunately not be used for any non-trivial
system.

the solution is to process first all preinst scripts of the essential
packages, then all postinst scripts of the essential packages, and then
the same for all non-essential packages.

Regards,
Daniel

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Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
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Version: 2.2.11+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package multistrap has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1093962

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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