Your message dated Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:55:22 +0000
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and subject line Bug#731281: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #722597,
regarding apt-transport-debtorrent: fails to purge - command (deluser|adduser)
in postrm not found
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Package: apt-transport-debtorrent
Version: 0.2.2
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge due
to a command not found. According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the
depends being available during purge, only the essential packages are
available for sure.
The fix should be easy: your package is using adduser or deluser from
the adduser package, which is only priority important. Using useradd or
userdel from the passwd package (priority required) should fix this
problem.
There is ongoing discussion how to handle system users on package
removal, see http://bugs.debian.org/621833
Consensus seems to be not to remove system users (to avoid reusing UIDs
which could grant access to the wrong files) but to "lock" them (where
"locking"/"unlocking" is not yet precisely defined). Until that has
been decided it should be sufficient to have the postrm script ignore
any errors from deluser:
deluser ... || true
Filing this as important because a.) it's a clear policy violation (to
not clean up at purge) b.) having a piuparts clean archive is a release
goal since lenny and c.) this package being piuparts buggy blocks
packages depending on it from being tested by piuparts (and thus
possibly the detection of more severe problems).
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
Removing debtorrent ...
Purging configuration files for debtorrent ...
Purging debtorrent cache directory
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debtorrent.postrm: 33:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debtorrent.postrm: deluser: not found
dpkg: error processing debtorrent (--purge):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
cheers,
Andreas
apt-transport-debtorrent_0.2.2+b1.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.2.2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package apt-transport-debtorrent has just been removed from the Debian
archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/731281
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Debian distribution maintenance software
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Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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