Re: Call for testing ...
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> That's obviously the error-unwind process calling postrm.
>> Unfortunately, Debian policy doesn't seem to document which arguments
>> are used in this case (or am I blind?).
>
> If I understand your message correctly, the error unwind procedure that
> is being applied here is the one after:
>
> <old-postrm> upgrade <new-version>
>
> failed,
No, I think it's the error unwind procedure after
dpkg-deb -x
as described in policy §6.6, number 4:
,----
| 4. The new package's files are unpacked, overwriting any that may be on
| the system already, for example any from the old version of the same
| package or from another package. Backups of the old files are kept
| temporarily, and if anything goes wrong the package management system
| will attempt to put them back as part of the error unwind.
`----
After that, it does not say what this error unwind is except putting
files back. But it seems that in my case, the postrm was run - I don't
know whether it's the old or new one.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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