Matthew - I did a few upgrade path tests on deb12 and concluded that the
permission error comes from which rc1 version the user started with. I got
a variety of results depending on 'which' rc1 dpkg was installed and how
many steps the system has been through. Some of the earlier rc1 dpkg have
the messages about 'dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory' are
expected, and should not cause any problems.
the error is coming from the postinst script, probably where we set
permissions. it has been working smoothly on clean installs and clean
upgrades, but on some upgrades it fails.
Hey Tom,
Just tried to upgrade from rc1 to rc3-2, and get
Get:1 https://weewx.com/apt-test/python3 buster/main all weewx all 5.0.0rc3-2
[1,556 kB]
Fetched 1,556 kB in 0s (3,314 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 74780 files and directorie
