[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#848111: closed by Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> (Re: Bug#848111: opendnssec-enforcer-mysql: fails to upgrade from 'jessie': dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: conffile 'conf.xml' is not an absolute path)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 08:40:27PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: found -1 1:1.4.6-6
> Control: found -1 1:2.0.3-5
> 
> On 2016-12-19 14:45, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This should be fixed now. Thanks for the piuparts upgrade testing.
> 
> This seems to be a bit more difficult. Looks like the error
> already exists in jessie, but dpkg-maintscript-helper in
> jessie does not notice it. That means, that
> these dpkg-maintscript-helper commands were ineffective:
> 
> for conffile in conf kasp zonefetch zonelist; do
>     for ext in xml xml.sample; do
>         dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile ${conffile}.${ext} 1.2.1.dfsg-1 -- "$@"
>     done
> done
> 
> and should be readded with a correct path, ideally via a .maintscript file
> and using the current version, to redo this cleanup on long grown systems for real.
> 
> 1:2.0.3-5 seems to have no more of these maintainer scripts, causing the upgrade to fail:
> 
>   Preparing to unpack .../opendnssec-enforcer-mysql_1%3a2.0.3-5_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking opendnssec-enforcer-mysql (1:2.0.3-5) over (1:1.4.6-6) ...
>   dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: conffile 'conf.xml' is not an absolute path
>   dpkg: warning: subprocess old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>   dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/opendnssec-enforcer-mysql_1%3a2.0.3-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
>   dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: conffile 'conf.xml' is not an absolute path
>   dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>    subprocess installed pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

If I (as non-maintainer) understand the problem correctly:
- the problematic conffiles are in opendnssec-enforcer-mysql
  in squeeze only
- in jessie (and probably earlier) they are in opendnssec-common
  and should not be removed

As far as I understand it, an empty postrm would be the best
available solution.

> Andreas

cu
Adrian

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