[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#709240: Upgrade to 6.1.11~dfsg-5 fails under Squeeze

[David Prévot]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

I upgraded sympa on a Squeeze system (prior to upgrading the whole
system under Wheezy) and it failed with the following:

Paramétrage de sympa (6.1.11~dfsg-5) ...
Stoping Sympa mailing list manager: sympa is already stopped.
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
apache2: installation seems OK ...
apache2: installation seems OK ...
Reloading web server config: apache2.
Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash (not hash element) at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Upgrade.pm line 1341, near "})"
Type of arg 1 to keys must be hash (not hash element) at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Upgrade.pm line 1380, near "}) "
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/sympa/lib/List.pm line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/sympa/lib/List.pm line 31.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Conf.pm line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Conf.pm line 31.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Commands.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/sympa/lib/Commands.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa.pl line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa.pl line 33.
dpkg : erreur de traitement de sympa (--configure) :
 le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une  erreur de sortie d'état 255
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 sympa
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I simply dropped the offending code from /usr/share/sympa/lib/Upgrade.pm
(that is related to SQLite, while I use mysql on this host) in order to
finish the upgrade, but the code could be Squeeze-friendly (or the
dependences more explicit) in order to avoid such failure.


The move from the now deprecated /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi to
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi could have deserve an entry
in NEWS too, since old configurations are likely to become unavailable
with the upgrade to Wheezy, making the web interface unavailable.

Please do consider adding such entry if you’re planning to make a
stable-update.

Regards

David

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