[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#456378: hplip: Uses update-rc.d remove while init script exists; upgrade fails

[Ben Hutchings]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.7.10-4
Severity: serious

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The preinst script does:

        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "2.7.7-0ubuntu4"; then
            update-rc.d hplip remove
        fi

The postinst script does the same but with a different version check.
Since /etc/init.d/hplip is a configuration file, it is not removed
when new versions of the package do not include it (and in any case,
the preinst script runs before the package's files have been updated).
So the update-rc.d invocation will always fail!  Perhaps these
invocation should use the -f option to force removal.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser             3.105                add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils           5.97-5.6             The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys              1.3.4-2              Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data          2.7.10-4             HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6               2.7-3                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2          1.3.4-2              Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libjpeg62           6b-14                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsane             1.0.19~cvs20071028-1 API library for scanners
ii  libsnmp15           5.4.1~dfsg-4         SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8g-3             SSL shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4        2:0.1.12-8           userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base            3.1-24               Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python              2.4.4-6              An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support      0.7.5                automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client          1.3.4-1           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                  2.7.10+2.7.10-4   HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds             2.6.10+1.6.10-4.3 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  hplip-gui              2.7.10-4          HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
pn  openprinting-ppds      <none>            (no description available)
ii  python-reportlab       2.0dfsg-1         ReportLab library to create PDF do

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