Your message dated Mon, 04 Apr 2016 07:35:27 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#818312: fixed in ukolovnik 1.5-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #818312, regarding ukolovnik: please don't use "if ! dbc_go" in your maintainer scripts to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 818312: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818312 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: ukolovnik Version: 1.4-2 Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear maintainer, According to codesearch¹ you are using the following construction in one or more of your maintainer scripts: if ! dbc_go <package_name> $@ ; then echo 'Automatic configuration using dbconfig-common failed!' fi I feel that I must explain to you why this is most likely not working as you intended and additionally caused me quite some debugging time a while ago. The main point is that maintainer scripts are strongly recommended to "set -e" at the beginning of the scripts by the Debian Policy². However, if you use constructions like "if" or "||" than the "set -e" don't propagate to the called scripts or functions, errors in the scripts or functions are ignored and the script continues. In the past (before version 2.0.0) dbconfig-common error handling used to rely on the behavior of "set -e" (which of course can be questioned, because it may not be set). Ironically that means that before version 2.0.0 you never observed the text that you included in the echo statement in your script. Now, in case of errors, the error handling of dbconfig-common asks the administrator how to proceed after the error with the installation/configuration/removal/purging of the package. One of the options is to abort, which is described as follows: * abort - Causes the operation to fail; you will need to downgrade, reinstall, reconfigure this package, or otherwise manually intervene to continue using it. This will usually also impact your ability to install other packages until the installation failure is resolved. By using the "if !dbc_go" statement you are ignoring the wish of the administrator, albeit it being the default answer. I kindly request to not use the construction anymore. If you must, I suggest you change the answer to the error questions to "ignore" (but please don't set the question as "seen"). Because the dbconfig-common files are sourced, I currently believe it is incorrect to "set -e" in the dbconfig-common files. Paul Current maintainer of dbconfig-common ¹ https://codesearch.debian.net/perpackage-results/!%20dbc_go/2/page_0 ² https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s6.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW6Gg9AAoJEJxcmesFvXUKX4sH/2i+soTkPWQ99UlSSTfD/wI1 pqRFqWAsZUaTcy1tPakUxPPKtyrhuUAr8Qen6SyjeeGITJIJ2Dzz83OBr8QizilT cmE6+aIfN/WCZ0vc9d9j+3YiBiYy3hNL09lJu5kuGiB8vFBZaGsjqk9Q7QRYducO kdKRwjD8fmHo8vw2syPsnIVk+Paj9dmfJE9Ll90IgOqQX1CoiEogvAjoN8NxWljU K3USAUcWPeFf8PQjceN+q0dgw3qqs1bzJp/lGAt03IA4DqOHi9OV7wsu2yS4X0Bh xM0dNIhya1lVRv0tVjQBntH/eeMaphZJT/8AwiVUt3I5if/Z+ggVB9s9pFzPm3k= =A57U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---Source: ukolovnik Source-Version: 1.5-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of ukolovnik, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Michal Čihař <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ukolovnik package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:24:46 +0200 Source: ukolovnik Binary: ukolovnik Architecture: source all Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Michal Čihař <[email protected]> Changed-By: Michal Čihař <[email protected]> Description: ukolovnik - Simple todo manager using PHP and MySQL Closes: 669783 818312 Changes: ukolovnik (1.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release. * Update Catalan debconf translation. * Bump standards to 3.9.7. * Let dbconfig-common handle error states (Closes: #818312). * Update Dutch debconf translation. * Apache 2.4 compatibility (Closes: #669783). * PHP 7.0 compatibility. * Update debian/copyright to match upstream change to GPL3 and use machine readable format. Checksums-Sha1: e21c3a6ae23b23de5211afcf3d278dc0291f5bcc 1819 ukolovnik_1.5-1.dsc a323097b078f30798eecb5cac46be7d7dada6a08 84162 ukolovnik_1.5.orig.tar.gz a9bb349cc4cf9d2bb3156be94dabe394f1eb06d2 9512 ukolovnik_1.5-1.debian.tar.xz 4d0d2e76dfebcb9fc4d1ec372996ce0cd43b8bfa 46280 ukolovnik_1.5-1_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: cf53102d830a549b3c24c23ddb5b6d3816fadfed9231e5f295738bc7575186cd 1819 ukolovnik_1.5-1.dsc 0aae96cfb0f1f4bac603f4bd31b4f80f7aa18a7ff93956d93536ce7297d2118e 84162 ukolovnik_1.5.orig.tar.gz 0a0589e20b1206ab1bfa153ed6a12f4b0bc5bf7240db9f1c1a518c35e5273a73 9512 ukolovnik_1.5-1.debian.tar.xz c4032ff381272573fb622eccf65114c6f373a41b5bd1a085c6bc8303e2bd7aab 46280 ukolovnik_1.5-1_all.deb Files: 291a9500b9f557641d9315d0bb634058 1819 web extra ukolovnik_1.5-1.dsc 399d0e0098a0eb13dedf41d4fd7e9bc3 84162 web extra ukolovnik_1.5.orig.tar.gz ef4a5443baa1e33065f1b4f121c09eb6 9512 web extra ukolovnik_1.5-1.debian.tar.xz 0049cb3c212585fcc71cb7fd9efaa113 46280 web extra ukolovnik_1.5-1_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXAhb3AAoJEJwnsxNCt1Ed75wP/3XIDBhO+dVAIvH5mPc+MUkc NdV8oG/4KfUr2cJkTGj+AlriL6KC9XGGDsCY+9CaSiqsRMOTF2Q0ndw52nLu6dF9 L/244sZCdpxFImrLxvU8sJinQILwlr64J5U5tbkdkiecQxm++9AeJmJDUxZUPwy8 G8BJ/aUVb84YeqVaQNyqtFdx8iaJzniNTNyFyW31ui/dsKMYaNsN+QqGI/s4IASq c+Ew20o6u7vKcMfGSkD5x3cKC2mkCiRmtaFo5XBV/FBXXvHYS6Iv5t/ENiwoGR2m 1SO+W9Slgs+jyh9z92SvgZxd1v05p5lGCqRILi3vZc6yY3NdYDIBJBlCHDxQVVlP nndOxPzEgCboMrMmP+Pi+uIDWe7bauUgiYgQWOXTUf3d7CVUwd31gjbb4AX47rnv 4IPeseVNLDelNTmw+07uO5O7GlHZha2gX00Q2Sde8l7zWK9KeqjNmj4G+XRqUBK1 WUXxaOx0ppFYM/yyj7Xb28Kt5my389jLD5JE6UGfU1cTqLzhz6bVj9SDGJynyG09 g9XIuNlbTydA6w7276Pb8JZHqLRhRMVkOiS2zPVarfb0dMEXA+OyDYR63C2PWA/y 0WkEaLVFGWMiAAe87cYzOu5zZUClb5yWTuZ0alaNyntJ4i/tpLg7/6j4VGzLs+kO xzbPG3zQ75j9lZL9XmBT =+YLD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- End Message ---
