Your message dated Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:33:23 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#911546: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #818315, regarding letodms: please don't use "if ! dbc_go" in your maintainer scripts to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: letodms Version: 3.3.11+dfsg.1-2 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW6GkcAAoJEJxcmesFvXUKH7QH/ij/S7r/5C+Kelu+HIJdeQS2 yC5Ipn/Q8EHOcjES3UayZlPZH80pSt+oRWDgVqPaDu34MVcmqWekKg8Ile0+VkfN 0kUMEKAKKDT+HPi5Ys3w2FQ5ArC74Ud5LPPxl39MWem4fL7Mo837uCOLx+9crjS7 O04ErhlOTlOswnI4triIyCa3zTXZQIhoRt+fSDdghxSVESOKgjhWzAUA2tvNsHye njYzcJVvHwUY/3Qny54w/gSTe8yWtH+L/hfesLVEOChBlNjMfFHyPdKviGtol8mP /jJF5BSUOdqiDPmmEGAD9F3MLRs6Mfado7nxLkqJGHXGs4LoyigCf0qB7Nzxst4= =caJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 3.4.2+dfsg-3+rm Dear submitter, as the package letodms 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 https://bugs.debian.org/911546 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 [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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