On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:22:57 -0700 Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Neil Williams <[email protected]> writes: > > > Is this just a corner case that lintian doesn't catch? (Is it > > really so rare that packages stop using debconf at some future > > version?) It's roughly equivalent to a package moving from a > > database that needed dbconfig-common support to some other backend > > (maybe a binary or simple file based one) that didn't need any > > debconf configuration. I'd expect this to have happened before. > > I have no strong opinions about the rest of your message, but so far > as I know, no one has ever mentioned this case to Lintian before and > the Lintian analysis code just doesn't anticipate it. (I was far too verbose, I know. Should have waited until the morning, too tired.) Turns out that with a few tweaks to the postinst proposed by Joey, lintian is happy, including with the ucf handling which was caught initially. Thanks, Joey. postinst: #/bin/sh set -e if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "2.2.0"; then if [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule # Remove my changes to the db. db_purge fi # Remove the configuration files if which ucf > /dev/null; then ucf --purge /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list ucf --purge /etc/emsource.conf fi if which ucfr > /dev/null; then ucfr --purge emdebian-tools /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list ucfr --purge emdebian-tools /etc/emsource.conf fi rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list.ucf-old rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list.ucf-new rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list.ucf-dist rm -f /etc/emsource.conf rm -f /etc/emsource.conf.ucf-old rm -f /etc/emsource.conf.ucf-new rm -f /etc/emsource.conf.ucf-dist fi -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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