Bug#681755: dpkg-cross: removes files that were installed by another package
Package: dpkg-cross Version: 2.6.6 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package removes files that were installed by another package. This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m26.8s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: /etc/dpkg-cross/ owned by: dpkg-cross, libdebian-dpkgcross-perl /etc/dpkg-cross/archtable.d/ owned by: libdebian-dpkgcross-perl /etc/dpkg-cross/archtable.d/archtable.default owned by: libdebian-dpkgcross-perl cheers, Andreas dpkg-cross_2.6.6.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#681755: dpkg-cross: removes files that were installed by another package
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:23:29 +0200 Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de wrote: Package: dpkg-cross Version: 2.6.6 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package removes files that were installed by another package. This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m26.8s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: /etc/dpkg-cross/ owned by: dpkg-cross, libdebian-dpkgcross-perl /etc/dpkg-cross/archtable.d/ owned by: libdebian-dpkgcross-perl /etc/dpkg-cross/archtable.d/archtable.defaultowned by: libdebian-dpkgcross-perl It's an error in debian/postrm which needs adapting so that libdebian-dpkgcross-perl is the only package handling /etc/dpkg-cross/ Will sort this out in ~ 1 week. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgplh0J7RD1Oo.pgp Description: PGP signature
