Release Jed 0.99.18-1

[Jörg Sommer]

Hello Rafael,

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sun 14. May, 20:45 (+0200):
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2006-05-13 18:24]:
> 
> First, when I tried to upgrade the package in my unstable chroot, it
> failed with the error message:
> 
> ========================================================================
> $ debi
> dpkg: error processing jed-common_0.99.18-1_all.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/jed.1.gz', which is also in package jed
> rmdir: /etc/jed-init.d: Directory not empty
> [...]
> debi: debpkg -i failed
> ========================================================================
> 
> This problem has nothing to do with version 0.99.18-1, but with the
> postrm script in version 0.99.16-6.  Unfortunately, this script was
> changed from version 0.99.16-5 to version 0.99.16-6 in a wrong way. It
> contained in version 0.99.16-5:
> 
>     if [ -z "`/bin/ls /etc/jed-init.d/`" ]; then 
>       rmdir /etc/jed-init.d
>     fi
> 
> In version 0.99.16-6, it changed to:
> 
>     if [ -d /etc/jed-init.d/ ]; then 
>       rmdir /etc/jed-init.d
>     fi
> 
> This change was done by Guenter on 2005-11-08 with the following log
> message:
> 
>     simplified test syntax as it failed on GNU bash, version
>     3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) (trying to remove nonexistent dir)

Günther, can you remember what was the full output? Did rmdir or ls
report "/etc/jed-init.d/: No such file or directory"?

> The problem can be circumvented if we revert the changes in version
> 0.99.18-1, because dpkg tries to use the new postrm script when the one
> of the version currently installed fails.

> My question to Guenter: could you revert or, if possible, write a code
> that works correctly and is compatible GNU bash 3.00.16(1)?

I would suggest these lines:

if [ -z $(ls /etc/jed-init.d/ 2>/dev/null) ]; then
  rmdir /etc/jed-init.d
fi

> dpkg: error processing jed-common_0.99.18-1_all.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/jed.1.gz', which is also in
> package jed
> ========================================================================
> 
> Indeed, jed.1.gz appears in both jed and jed-common packages.  This must
> be fixed.

Done. It was an conjuncture of the build split.

Bye, Jörg.
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