| Frank Küster 2006-01-13, 10:44 pm |
| LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Frank K=FCster wrote:
>
> Simple. Buggy postrm (or was it prerm) fails, and the package is left
> with all its files removed, but still marked as installed in dpkg. And
> it never gets installed again. There have been a few packages like
> this, and tetex-$mumble seems to ring a bell as one of the b0rken ones.
That might well be, and maybe even the new postrm or prerm scripts that
I wrote from scratch suffer from that. But why does it only occur on
the hppa buildd, then?
And how could it be detected and fixed - of course I do remove and purge
in a pbuilder chroot all the packages I upload.
Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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