Re: Bug#681755: dpkg-cross: removes files that were installed by another package

Neil Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:23:29 +0200
Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Package: dpkg-cross
> Version: 2.6.6
> Severity: serious
> User: [email protected]
> 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

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
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