Re: Bug#403641: Is this RC: "postrm remove" assumes Depended-on packages are configured and fails
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear Release Managers,
>
> do you consider the following scenario release-critical? If yes, we
> have more than one RC bug:
>
> - $packagemanager install B X
> - package A is unpacked
> - package B which Depends: A is unpacked
> - package X which is unrelated is tried to unpack, but fails (e.g. a
> file conflict
> - $packagmanager starts removing all new packages
>
> - the postrm of B is called with "remove" and fails since it assumes
> that A is configured and uses commands which fail
>
> This happened with tetex-base on a build, but the problem exists in all
> packages that use dh_installtex with any other options than common
> debhelper ones.
As we just found out, this is wrong: dh_installtex already does proper
checking. So it seems only tetex-base needs to be fixed.
But I'd still like to have advice from the release team: Should we
upload tetex-base (currently 7 days old, unblocked) now, with
urgency=high, or is the bug not RC and we should wait until the current
sid version has migrated?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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