Bug#881871: stretch-pu: package bacula/7.4.4+dfsg-6
On 01/15/2018 08:32 AM, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
> 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.
>
How would they get an update to a removed package? (Yes, I'm pretty sure.)
Cheers,
Julien
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