Bug#675791: dpkg falsly marks packages as configured and having files installed

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Guillem,


thank you for your quick reply.

Am Sonntag, den 03.06.2012, 22:52 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> reassign 675791 libgtk2.0-bin,libgtk-3-bin
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 13:51:41 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.16.3
> > Severity: normal
> 
> > `aptitude safe-upgrade` removed some unneeded packages, that means
> > automatically installed ones no other package depends on anymore, today.
> > 
> >         $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> >         […]
> >         Laden der Fehlerberichte ... Erledigt
> >         »Found/Fixed«-Informationen werden ausgewertet ... Erledigt
> >         Lese Changelogs... Fertig
> >         Extrahiere Vorlagen aus Paketen: 100%
> >         Vorkonfiguration der Pakete ...
> >         (Lese Datenbank ... 459531 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
> >         Entfernen von dmz-cursor-theme ...
> >         update-alternatives: /usr/share/icons/DMZ-Black/cursor.theme wird verwendet, um /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme (x-cursor-theme) im Auto-Modus bereitzustellen.
> >         Entfernen von gnome-themes ...
> >         Entfernen von gnome-themes-extras ...
> >         Entfernen von gnome-themes-more ...
> >         Entfernen von gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 ...
> >         Entfernen von gtk2-engines-smooth ...
> >         […]
> >         Entfernen von libkutils4 ...
> >         Entfernen von libkprintutils4 ...
> >         […]
> 
> I'm guessing this is the same run as the next one?

Yes. I am deleting the next one, because I wrongly pasted it there in
the first place.

> > To look if they need purging I did

        $ LANG=C dpkg -l libkprintutils4 libkutils4 gnome-themes{,-{more,extras}}
        […]
        rc  gnome-themes                  2.30.2-1                      official themes for the GNOME desktop
        rc  gnome-themes-extras           2.22.0-3                      extra themes for the GNOME desktop
        rc  gnome-themes-more             0.9.0.deb0.8                  various themes for the GNOME desktop
        rc  libkprintutils4               4:4.7.4-6                     utility classes to deal with printing
        rc  libkutils4                    4:4.7.4-6                     dummy transitional library

> > and checked some manually.
> > 
> >         $ LANG=C dpkg -L libkprintutils4 libkutils4 gnome-themes{,-{more,extras}}
> >         Package `libkprintutils4' does not contain any files (!)
> > 
> >         Package `libkutils4' does not contain any files (!)
> > 
> >         /usr
> >         /usr/share
> >         /usr/share/icons
> >         /usr/share/icons/Mist
> >         /usr/share/icons/Crux
> > 
> >         /usr
> >         /usr/share
> >         /usr/share/icons
> >         /usr/share/icons/Lush
> >         /usr/share/icons/Wasp
> >         /usr/share/icons/Nuvola
> >         /usr/share/icons/SphereCrystal
> >         /usr/share/icons/Amaranth
> >         /usr/share/icons/Gorilla
> > 
> >         /usr
> >         /usr/share
> >         /usr/share/icons
> >         /usr/share/icons/Neu
> >         /usr/share/icons/Gion
> >         /usr/share/icons/gnome-alternative
> >         /usr/share/icons/Foxtrot
> > 
> > Looking for these files, they are not there anymore though.
> > 
> >         $ ls -l /usr/share/icons/
> >         insgesamt 64
> >         drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 18  2011 Adwaita
> >         -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1227 Apr 28 16:34 cab_extract.png
> >         -rw-r--r--  1 root root  833 Apr 28 16:34 cab_view.png
> >         drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Aug  9  2010 crystalsvg
> >         lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   10 Apr 18  2008 default.kde -> crystalsvg
> >         lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 Mär  6 19:49 default.kde4 -> oxygen
> >         drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mai 27 10:12 gnome
> >         drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun  3 13:01 hicolor
> >         drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Mai 16 08:28 HighContrast
> >         drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Mai 16 08:28 HighContrastInverse
> >         drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jul 22  2011 HighContrastLargePrint
> >         drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jul 22  2011 HighContrastLargePrintInverse
> >         drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jul 24  2010 HighContrast-SVG
> >         drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 24  2010 LargePrint
> >         drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Nov  1  2010 locolor
> >         drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Mai 16 08:28 LowContrast
> >         drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mai 22 09:52 oxygen
> > 
> > So I wonder why they are still marked as configured?
> 
> These remaining paths were just directories, and they could not be
> removed on remove by dpkg because they were not empty, then one of
> the maintainer scripts called update-icon-caches which removed the
> icon-theme.cache file and the parent directory. Once the package
> is purged these pending paths will be tried to get removed again,
> which will not be needed as they do not exist.
> 
> I guess strictly speaking this could be considered a bug, but in
> update-icon-caches if anything, I'm thus reassigning to that so that
> the GNOME maintainers can decide what to do, although there might be
> a rationale why this was done this way.

Interesting. Let’s see what they say.


Thanks,

Paul
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