Re: My package is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Andrey Rahmatullin]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:45:37PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
> My package cannot be upgraded from current version to latest version
> -- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769
> 
> It might have something to do with obsoleted conffile files or it
> might even not. The problem is, I've been trying to understand how the
> conffile files work, and I think I'm doing the right thing, yet my
> package cannot be properly upgraded.
> 
> - I don't understand what breaks and why, from the output of the
> package upgrade log (see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769).
Well those errors are clearly caused by dbab.maintscript saying
"rm_conffile /etc/dbab", while /etc/dbab is indeed a directory and not a
file. So it would be helpful if you told us what were you trying to do by
this. If this is about #958900 then rm_conffile is *not* about removing
files on purge. You should remove them manually in postrm, but only on
purge.

Unrelated, but is the package doesn't function without files downloaded
from Internet, and even downloads them in postinst, then it should go to
contrib. Should I file a bug about this?


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My package is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Tong Sun]

Hi Mentors,

I need help.

My package cannot be upgraded from current version to latest version
-- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769

It might have something to do with obsoleted conffile files or it
might even not. The problem is, I've been trying to understand how the
conffile files work, and I think I'm doing the right thing, yet my
package cannot be properly upgraded.

- I don't understand what breaks and why, from the output of the
package upgrade log (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769).
- Thus, I have no idea how to fix it, and all my previous attempts failed. So,

Please help. The package source is at:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbab/


Also, I've been trying to solve it on my own for so long that now the
good version in testing is marked for autoremoval, for the reason
that:

> If a package is out of sync between unstable and testing for a longer
period, this usually means that bugs in the package in testing cannot be
fixed via unstable.

However, this is not true in my case. So if I still cannot fix the
problem by myself by the deadline, would I be able to at least stop my
package being autoremed from testing?

Thanks for helping

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From: Debian testing autoremoval watch 
Date: Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:40 PM
Subject: dbab is marked for autoremoval from testing
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dbab 1.5.01-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2021-12-11

It is affected by these RC bugs:
999581: dbab: fails to migrate to testing for too long: unresolved RC bug
 https://bugs.debian.org/999581



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