[Piuparts-devel] [DRAFT] mass bug filing of 'command not found' errors detected by piuparts

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi,

I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently fail the
piuparts test with a 'command not found' error in wheezy and sid. Most
of these errors happen during 'postrm purge' phase because non-essential
programs are called by the maintainer script without checking their
existance.

The 'command-not-found' failure logs are available from
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/command_not_found_error.html
http://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy/command_not_found_error.html
(needs a patch to be applied on piuparts.d.o get get a useful list there)

The 'postinst-failed' logs (mostly due to command-not-found, so showing
more or less the same packages) are here:
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/unknown_purge_error.html
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/unknown_purge_error.html

Current statistics of the most common missing commands in failing
piuparts tests:

./wheezy/main/fail:
     36 postrm: ucf: not found
     18 postrm: deluser: not found
      6 postrm: pkill: not found
      3 postrm: update-initramfs: not found
      3 postrm: ucfr: not found
      3 postrm: mktexlsr: not found
      3 postrm: db_purge: not found

./sid/main/fail:
     33 postrm: deluser: not found
     31 postrm: ucf: not found
     10 postrm: delgroup: not found
      6 postrm: pkill: not found
      5 postinst: /usr/bin/sqlite3: not found
      3 postrm: update-initramfs: not found
      3 postrm: ucfr: not found
      3 postrm: mktexlsr: not found
      3 postrm: dbc_go: not found
      3 postrm: db_purge: not found
      2 prerm: ps: not found
      1 prerm: line 60: stop: command not found
      1 postrm: pyversions: not found
      1 postrm: openssl: not found
      1 postrm: newaliases: not found
      1 ./sid/main/fail/openswan-modules-dkms_1:2.6.37-1.log:
/usr/lib/ipsec/_realsetup: 452: /usr/lib/ipsec/_realsetup: ps: not found


First target will be the heavy hitters ucf/ucfr and deluser/delgroup.
I'll file these bugs with Severity: important since having a piuparts
clean archive is a release goal since lenny.
(The postinst failures may get a serious if they cause the installation
to fail.)

The bug report will be based on this template:


    Hi,

    during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge
    due to a command not found. According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely
    on the depends being available during purge, only the essential
    packages are available for sure.

    $HINT

    Filing this as important because a.) it's a clear policy violation
    (to not clean up at purge) b.) having a piuparts clean archive is a
    release goal since lenny and c.) this package being piuparts buggy
    blocks packages depending on it from being tested by piuparts (and
    thus possibly the detection of more severe problems).

    From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

    $LOGEXCERPT

    Attachment: $PACKAGE_$VERSION.log.gz


The HINT for ucf/ucfr is:

    Please see the manpages ucf(1), ucfr(1) and the example maintainer
    scripts under /usr/share/doc/ucf/examples/ for correct usage of ucf.

and for deluser/delgroup:

    The fix should be easy: your package is using adduser or deluser
    from the adduser package, which is only priority important. Using
    useradd or userdel from the passwd package should fix this problem.

For the other commands I'll research more information per package.

The logfiles will be checked individually to determine that the
command-not-found is really the most serious error in there (and not a
false positive).

Following is a list of maintainers and their packages that both fail the
piuparts test and have 'command not found' errors, but may contain false
positives.

Regards,

Andreas


Arnaud Fontaine <arnau at debian.org>
   tuxonice-userui

Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com>
   bind9 (U)

Benoit Mortier <benoit.mortier at opensides.be>
   fusioninventory-agent (U)

Cameron Dale <camrdale at gmail.com>
   torrentflux

Christoph Haas <haas at debian.org>
   cream
   cream (U)

Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib at debian.org>
   tomcat6 (U)

Dan Poltawski <talktodan at gmail.com>
   moodle (U)

Dario Minnucci <midget at debian.org>
   dotclear

Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   tomcat6
   tomcat7

Debian Javascript Maintainers <pkg-javascript-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   buddycloud-server

Debian MeeGo packaging Team <pkg-meego-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   uxlaunch

Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   python-axiom

Debian QA Group <packages at qa.debian.org>
   webissues-server

Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org>
   uxlaunch (U)

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
   slurm-llnl (U)

Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
   movabletype-opensource

Evgeni Golov <evgeni at debian.org>
   bley

Gennaro Oliva <oliva.g at na.icar.cnr.it>
   slurm-llnl

Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org>
   fusioninventory-agent

Igor Stroh <jenner at debian.org>
   ldap2dns

James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com>
   tomcat7 (U)

Jan Christoph Nordholz <hesso at pool.math.tu-berlin.de>
   autofs5

Jeremy Malcolm <terminus at debian.org>
   gozerbot

Jeroen Schot <schot at a-eskwadraat.nl>
   cream

John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com>
   gnuspool

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
   buddycloud-server (U)

LaMont Jones <lamont at debian.org>
   bind9

Ludovic Claude <ludovic.claude at laposte.net>
   tomcat6 (U)

Martin Schulze <joey at debian.org>
   sysklogd

Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de>
   tomcat6 (U)

Mickael Profeta <profeta at debian.org>
   prelude-manager
   prelude-manager (U)

Miguel Landaeta <miguel at miguel.cc>
   tomcat6 (U)
   tomcat7 (U)

Moodle Packaging Team <pkg-moodle-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   moodle

Neil Roeth <neil at debian.org>
   psgml

Nicolas Roudaire <nikrou77 at gmail.com>
   dotclear (U)

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
   tomcat6 (U)

Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei at debian.org>
   webissues-server

Penny Leach <penny at mjollnir.org>
   moodle (U)

Philip Hands <phil at hands.com>
   gnuspool (U)

Pierre Chifflier <pollux at debian.org>
   ocsinventory-agent
   prelude-manager
   prelude-manager (U)

Radu Spineanu <radu at debian.org>
   simba

Ryan Kavanagh <rak at debian.org>
   prerex

Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org>
   smartlist

Takuo Kitame <kitame at debian.org>
   stone

Tomasz Muras <nexor1984 at gmail.com>
   moodle (U)

tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org>
   tomcat6 (U)
   tomcat7 (U)

Torsten Werner <twerner at debian.org>
   tomcat6 (U)

Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi at mithrandi.net>
   python-axiom (U)

Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org>
   python-axiom (U)

Xavier Oswald <xoswald at debian.org>
   moodle (U)

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