Re: shall I file a bug for package trousers on Sid?
On Sunday 17 June 2012 12:36:36 Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> Hi y'all:
>
> I had the package "trousers" installed on an old machine where there is no
> TPM hardware. So the package makes no sense on that machine. I wanted to
> deinstall.
[snip]
> Deinstalation wants to stop the tcsd daemon. Daemon does not run because
> driver is not installed. Logically invoke-rc.d comes back with an error,
> saying that daemon is not running.
> Well, that's what we want, right?
> But install script stops because of an error - not checking the kind of
> error. Not realizing that the error counts as a success because we DO
> WANT that the daemon does not run.
> Deinstallation fails with error instead of going on.
[snip]
> ... is this not a bug?
Answer: Yes.
> Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?
Answer: No! Bug #676828 was already filed and considered solved with the new
version of trousers.
Should have looked before.
Sorry for the noise.
Eike
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