[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#416947: depends on non-essential package debconf in postrm

[Michael Ablassmeier]

Package: mediawiki1.7
Version: 1.7.1-14
Severity: serious
Tags: etch-ignore
Justification: Policy violation, see section 7.2

hi,

while running archive wide piuparts tests your package failed on purge
because of debconf beeing unavailable during postrm:

 Removing mediawiki1.7 ...
  Purging configuration files for mediawiki1.7 ...
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/mediawiki1.7.postrm: line 8: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing mediawiki1.7 (--purge):
   subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   mediawiki1.7

the full log can be found here:

 http://people.debian.org/~abi/piuparts/

please be sure to use a conditional call to debconf and its commands (this is
just an example):

--
 if [ -f /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then
    . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
 fi

 db_get ||:
--

Please also note: Bugs filed on Packages failing in postrm because of debconf
beeing unavailable are not considered RC for etch, so are tagged etch-ignore.

bye,
    - michael