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Bug#233645: libxpm4: remove/purge hangs postrm



On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:06:43AM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:04:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm, yup.  I didn't give the second fgrep a second argument.  The first
> > fgrep will never block waiting on STDIN.
> > 
> > Thanks for catching this.  I'll fix it right away.
> 
> IME (I could be wrong, just messed around 'til I got dpkg exiting cleanly)
> you have to drop the -q arg (this also makes sense if I read the function
> correctly - I hope I am ;) and add an " || true" after that fgrep because
> the maintainer script will otherwise almost always exit with an error code
> (fgrep returning non-zero if /usr/X11R6/lib is the only directory listed
> in ld.so.conf).

Yup.  Thanks a *lot* for the code review.  Both of these issues will be
fixed in 4.3.0-3 as well.

> BTW. Thanks for the work on Debian - while I like whatever I do whenever
> I get around to do it myself, I do love it when I get some appreciation,
> whenever someone sends it. I think anyone working on X11 packages needs
> it even more so than I do :)
> (maybe we should propose a debian-love ML, just like gnome-love >:-)

It'd be a nice counterweight to debian-flame, er, debian-devel.  :)

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |      If you don't think for yourself,
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      others will think for you -- to
branden@debian.org                 |      their advantage.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |      -- Harold Gordon

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