Bug#766308: Fails to purge: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.postrm: 9: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND: parameter not set

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Fri Nov 14 16:03:38 UTC 2014


Control: tag -1 + pending

14.11.2014 18:10, Jonathan Dupart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This bug is a consequence of the removal of various set +u/set -u in
> commit f671341b70f8edaaa63704b73fd760ef013fa504.
> 
> The bug #369953 has not been resolved then the workarounds set up 
> waiting for its resolution should not be removed (or the set -u should 
> also be removed from the entire script).
> 
> Please find a patch reverting this changes.

I fixed it in git but forgot to mark it as pending.  I prefer to
just remove the set -u, as almost no other maintscripts use it,
and I want to simplify the scripts (removing more of the old
cruft from them), so hopefully -u will be less useful.

Thanks,

/mjt



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