Re: debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 23:21 +0100 schrieb Frans Pop: > Right. This is getting somewhat beyond my knowledge of debconf internals, > but here is what happens. > > Daniel Leidert wrote: [..] > The full debug log and the sourced confmodule file fairly clearly show > what happens. First thank

Re: debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
Right. This is getting somewhat beyond my knowledge of debconf internals, but here is what happens. Daniel Leidert wrote: > You don't need more. For some reason "Make me fail." is given as > argument to the debconf confmodule: The full debug log and the sourced confmodule file fairly clearly sho

Re: debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 20:30 +0100 schrieb Frans Pop: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > If I understand this case correctly then the problem is quite likely that > this message > > >> Unknown media type in type '...' > > is output to stdout instead of stderr. > > Programs/scripts that have to be

Re: debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > If I understand this case correctly then the problem is quite likely that > this message >>> Unknown media type in type '...' > is output to stdout instead of stderr. > Programs/scripts that have to be able to run under debconf are

Re: debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
Daniel Leidert wrote: If I understand this case correctly then the problem is quite likely that this message >> Unknown media type in type '...' is output to stdout instead of stderr. Programs/scripts that have to be able to run under debconf are not allowed to output to or read input from std

debconf making package removal fail because of warnings issues by an earlier called program (in postrm)

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
CCing debian-devel Hi, An issue has been brought to my attention and I wonder, if this is a bug or the intended behaviour. For reference see https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/290621. In this case a package should be removed. In its postrm it calls update-mime-database, update-mime and so