[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1095408: piuparts: inconsistent results between firebird3.0 and firebird4.0 wrt policy-rc.d

[Damyan Ivanov]

На 7 февруари 2025 г. 15:01:50 ч. UTC, Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org> написа:
>> It is demonstrated by a recent failed test[1] of firebird3.0-server 
>> (src:firebird3.0) during purge. When .postrm tries to remove the 'firebird' 
>> user userdel fails because the service started during install is still running.
>> 
>> This demonstrates a bug in firebird3.0-server (service not stopped on package 
>> remove), visible only when system services are managed via init.d.
>
>In any case firebird should not try to remove the user in the first
>place.

Why not? It didn't before, but I added the removal (if the firebird user is a system user) in response to #1089791

>Regardless if workarounds are present in piuparts, if this is fixed
>in firebird, it should be fine then...

Yes. I have uploaded firebird3.0/4.0 with a fix. We'll see the result soon.


-- Damyan