Re: How to troubleshoot conffile files problems
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 11:09 PM Tong Sun
<suntong001@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 10:46 AM Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having problem with my conffile files, see
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769
> >
> > I.e.,
> >
> > ----
> > grep: /etc/dbab/dbab.list-: No such file or directory
> > cat: /etc/dbab/dbab.addr: No such file or directory
> > ----
Oh, sorry Andrey, I didn't notice your following reply. sorry
> Well those errors are clearly caused by dbab.maintscript saying
> "rm_conffile /etc/dbab", while /etc/dbab is indeed a directory and not a
> file. So it would be helpful if you told us what were you trying to do by
> this. If this is about #958900 then rm_conffile is *not* about removing
> files on purge.
The following is what I were trying to do, and yes, I hoped that it
can be used to fix #958900, as well as doing the following:
> OK, I want to remove all conffile files and reinstall the new ones
> when doing package upgrade, as there isn't much user intervention to
> those conffile files. All are provided by the package.
>
> So I do `rm_conffile` to the old conffile files when doing package
> upgrade, but the new conffile files provided by the new upgrading
> package did not get installed afterwards, before they were used.
>
> > They should be there but I have no idea why they are not.
>
> That's why they are there if doing fresh package installation but they
> are not there if doing package upgrade.
>
> How to properly handle conffile files in such a case?
>
> You should remove them manually in postrm, but only on
> purge.
How to do that please?
I see some scripts under https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
that can handle such / specific cases, but there is also a claim of
"since dpkg 1.15.7.2 this can be done using dpkg-maintscript-helper".
So, I have 4 ~ 6 conffile files, how to remove them manually in postrm
but only on purge pls?
> Unrelated, but is the package doesn't function without files downloaded
> from Internet, and even downloads them in postinst, then it should go to
> contrib. Should I file a bug about this?
Please don't yet, as I totally don't understand what you want me to
do, now. Unless you can send me a patch, please let me get this thing
over first.
> Please, please help.
>
> Again, the package source is at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbab/
>
> Thanks
>
>
> > Is there any way to have more insights into what's going on during the
> > package upgrade or conffile files handling?
> >
> > thx
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 3:45 PM Tong Sun
> > <suntong001@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Mentors,
> > >
> > > I need help.
> > >
> > > My package cannot be upgraded from current version to latest version
> > > -- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769
> > >
> > > It might have something to do with obsoleted conffile files or it
> > > might even not. The problem is, I've been trying to understand how the
> > > conffile files work, and I think I'm doing the right thing, yet my
> > > package cannot be properly upgraded.
> > >
> > > - I don't understand what breaks and why, from the output of the
> > > package upgrade log (see
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995769).
> > > - Thus, I have no idea how to fix it, and all my previous attempts failed. So,
> > >
> > > Please help. The package source is at:
> > >
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbab/
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, I've been trying to solve it on my own for so long that now the
> > > good version in testing is marked for autoremoval, for the reason
> > > that:
> > >
> > > > If a package is out of sync between unstable and testing for a longer
> > > period, this usually means that bugs in the package in testing cannot be
> > > fixed via unstable.
> > >
> > > However, this is not true in my case. So if I still cannot fix the
> > > problem by myself by the deadline, would I be able to at least stop my
> > > package being autoremed from testing?
> > >
> > > Thanks for helping
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > From: Debian testing autoremoval watch <noreply@release.debian.org>
> > > Date: Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:40 PM
> > > Subject: dbab is marked for autoremoval from testing
> > > To: <dbab@packages.debian.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > dbab 1.5.01-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2021-12-11
> > >
> > > It is affected by these RC bugs:
> > > 999581: dbab: fails to migrate to testing for too long: unresolved RC bug
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/999581
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This mail is generated by:
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/release-tools/-/blob/master/mailer/mail_autoremovals.pl
> > >
> > > Autoremoval data is generated by:
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/blob/master/udd/testing_autoremovals_gatherer.pl
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