Bug#838112: uctodata: fails to upgrade from jessie - trying to overwrite /etc/ucto/es.abr

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:04:24PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-01-24 09:32, Maarten van Gompel wrote:
> > Quoting Andreas Beckmann (2017-01-24 02:54:36)
> >> On 2017-01-24 02:51, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >>> spotted a typo (trailing "a") in frogdata.maintscript
> >>>
> >>> echo "rm_conffile /etc/frog/${subdir}Frog.mbt.1.0.known.dddwfWaw.wgt 0.13.7~"a
> >>
> >> but that's harmless, its still a valid version to achieve your goal
> > 
> > Oops... Well spotted, I just fixed it in git, but it is probably overkill to prepare/upload a new release just
> > for that now I guess?
> 
> Correct. But let me see what else I found:

Wow, upgrades issues are so full of cases.
Anyhow, I still don't think we should fix these, if nothing to try to
have the newer upstream versions and their fairly big diffs into
stretch.

I suggest you (Andreas) file a new bug(s) copy-pasting what you wrote
here, and we (=> Maarten) will possibly deal with it after the current
testing migrations happen.
Fixing those should only be about adding few maintscripts lines, so that
should be feasible for the release team to grant, surely more than the
current update (note that what I want to avoid is to needlessly burden
the release team; I think they would grant also the current upgrade, but
it'd take more for them to review).

> You probably shouldn't call rm_conffile on the symlinks owned by
> uctodata - these are no conffiles, but you seem to confuse dpkg by doing
> this. Removing the conffiles from jessie is better left to
> ucto.maintscript.
> 
> I think you found a bug in dpkg here :-)

ISTR reading something somewhere that not handling symlinks as conffile
is a known decision, because it's particuarly hard to do.

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