Bug#403648: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#403648: piuparts: Try unpack, then remove?

2006-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Kurt, On Monday 18 December 2006 18:35, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I've recently seen a bug where a package is unpacked but not setup, so postinst didn't get run. Isn't that the case of a local administrator willingly (or due to a bug in apt/dpkg) choose to change default behaviour of the

Bug#403648: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#403648: piuparts: Try unpack, then remove?

2006-12-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:03:37PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Kurt, On Monday 18 December 2006 18:35, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I've recently seen a bug where a package is unpacked but not setup, so postinst didn't get run. Isn't that the case of a local administrator willingly (or due to

Bug#403648: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#403648: piuparts: Try unpack, then remove?

2006-12-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2006-12-18 at 21:27 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: So, the problem is that because of a failure in some other package, dpkg didn't completly install everything. When then trying to remove package packages that weren't in completly installed, it failed. Right. I think it would be nice if