Bug#881871: stretch-pu: package bacula/7.4.4+dfsg-6

[Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 00:02:29 +0100, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
>
>> 2) Bug #880529: When updating from jessie to stretch, the package
>> "bacula-director-common" will be removed, but the postrm will stay
>> around. Upon purging this package, postrm unconditionally removes the
>> main bacula configuration file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf, leaving
>> bacula unusable. We fix this by introducing a transitional package that
>> can then be safely removed.
>> 
> It sounds like this won't solve the issue for anyone who has already
> upgraded but hasn't yet purged bacula-director-common.  Couldn't
> bacula-director's postinst neuter the old postrm instead?

Are you sure? I'd say that these people will get the upgrade to the
transitional package and this will remove the old postrm.

Regards,

Carsten