[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#614716: lighttpd: leaves dangling alternatives on upgrade

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Wed Feb 23 00:36:12 UTC 2011


Package: lighttpd
Version: 1.4.28-2
Severity: serious

lighttpd split out the spawn-fcgi binary and manual page to spawn-fcgi
but does not handle removal of the alternatives. As a result anyone
upgrading from lenny to squeeze who has recommends turned off will have
dangling alternatives. With recommends on spawn-fcgi gets pulled in and
the dangling alternative is fixed by spawn-fcgi. Lots of folks running
servers will have installing recommends turned off so I marked this
serious. Whatever the severity I personally think this should be fixed
in squeeze, please co-ordinate a fix with the release team.

pabs at chianamo:~$ ll /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Oct 17  2008 /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -> /etc/alternatives/spawn-fcgi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 17  2008 /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/spawn-fcgi.1.gz
pabs at chianamo:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/*spawn*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Oct 17  2008 /etc/alternatives/spawn-fcgi -> /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Oct 17  2008 /etc/alternatives/spawn-fcgi.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd.1.gz
pabs at chianamo:~$ ll /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd.1.gz
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.lighttpd.1.gz: No such file or directory

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lighttpd depends on:
ii  libattr1                1:2.4.44-2       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfam0                 2.7.0-17         Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.23-7         OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpcre3                8.02-1.1         Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8o-5         SSL shared libraries
ii  libterm-readline-perl-p 1.0303-1         Perl implementation of Readline li
ii  lsb-base                3.2-27           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support            3.51-1           MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lighttpd recommends:
pn  spawn-fcgi                    <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages lighttpd suggests:
ii  apache2-utils                 2.2.16-6   utility programs for webservers
ii  openssl                       0.9.8o-5   Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii  rrdtool                       1.4.3-1    time-series data storage and displ

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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