Re: Bug#706110: libgnome{, vfs}2-common: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm failure: gconf-schemas: not found
- To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
- Cc: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>, 706110@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>, debian-release <debian-release@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#706110: libgnome{, vfs}2-common: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm failure: gconf-schemas: not found
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:11:05 +0200
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 25 avril 2013 à 19:45 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > > I don’t think it is a problem for scripts in the postinst, nor in
> > > triggered scripts. I thought prerm was supposed to be OK as long as
> > > there are no loops in the upgrade (the policy is vague on the subject),
> > > but this is not the first such problem I hear of.
> > >
> > It's very much a problem in triggered scripts.
>
> How so? The triggered package has all its dependencies installed and
> configured when running “postinst trigger”, so there shouldn’t be any
> similar problem.
In theory yes, but dpkg has a bug related to this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671711
And Guillem decided to postpone its fix to jessie because it has too many
implications.
Cheers,
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