Package: universal-ctags Version: 0+git20200824-1.1.g15ce0a8 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: Policy 6.4
This is a clean buster container where I tested upgrading universal-ctags: root@1066c7b1da18:/# apt install -qy universal-ctags Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages will be upgraded: universal-ctags 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 92 not upgraded. Need to get 442 kB of archives. After this operation, 311 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 universal-ctags amd64 0+git20200824-1 [442 kB] Fetched 442 kB in 5s (87.9 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 8631 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../universal-ctags_0+git20200824-1_amd64.deb ... prerm called with unknown argument `upgrade' dpkg: warning: old universal-ctags package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK Unpacking universal-ctags (0+git20200824-1) over (0+git20181215-2) ... Setting up universal-ctags (0+git20200824-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ctags-universal to provide /usr/bin/etags (etags) in auto mode It seems that dpkg works around the issue somehow, but still prerm should not exit non-zero. The script will also fail similarly when prerm is called with "deconfigure". The attached patch fixes both cases. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: arm64 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages universal-ctags depends on: ii libc6 2.31-10 ii libjansson4 2.13.1-1.1 ii libseccomp2 2.5.1-1 ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.3+b1 ii libyaml-0-2 0.2.2-1 universal-ctags recommends no packages. Versions of packages universal-ctags suggests: ii vim 2:8.2.2434-3 ii vim-gtk3 [vim] 2:8.2.2434-3 -- no debconf information
From 490f13d5b473059dd873deab5f1f1b64e12f4f40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 17:05:57 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] debian/prerm: handle upgrade/removal scenarios correctly --- debian/prerm | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/prerm b/debian/prerm index 6ebf9a2..4b4d130 100644 --- a/debian/prerm +++ b/debian/prerm @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ set -e case "$1" in - remove) + remove|deconfigure) update-alternatives --remove ctags /usr/bin/ctags-universal update-alternatives --remove etags /usr/bin/ctags-universal ;; - failed-upgrade) + upgrade|failed-upgrade) ;; *) -- 2.31.0
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