[Piuparts-devel] Need help with a particular piuparts run

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-07-02 00:09, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> The reason why point 2 happens is because kanla calls
> init-system-helpers’s “deb-systemd-helper disable kanla.service” in
> kanla’s postrm script on purge. However, piuparts already removed
> init-system-helpers _before_ purging and therefore, the call is not
> made, thus the state file is not removed, thus the directory cannot be
> cleaned up.

> Is there anything we can do about this situation?

We could make init-system-helpers fake-essential (similarly to ucf,
dbconfig-common and adduser), at least when testing for proper cleanup.
Unfortunately init-system-helpers depends on perl ... which seems to
pull in a lot.


Andreas