[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#1109499: bacula-director-sqlite3: fails to dist-upgrade from bookworm to trixie

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> The error is:
> > Preparing to unpack .../bacula-common_15.0.3-3_amd64.deb ...
> > dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/bacula-common_15.0.3-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  new bacula-common package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
                               ^^^^^^^^
> > systemd-tmpfiles: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkmod.so.2)
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-common.postinst has:
                                   ^^^^^^^^
> > # Automatically added by dh_installtmpfiles/13.24.2
> > if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-deconfigure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-remove" ] ; then
> >         if [ -x "$(command -v systemd-tmpfiles)" ]; then
> >                 systemd-tmpfiles ${DPKG_ROOT:+--root="$DPKG_ROOT"} --create bacula.conf || true
> >         fi
> > fi
> > # End automatically added section
> 
> I wonder if it would help to have bacula-common Depend on Pre-Depend on
> systemd to help apt decide to configure it before call systemd-tmpfiles
> in postinst.
> 

The preinst script should be this: https://binarycontrol.debian.net/cache/unstable/bacula-common/preinst
which does not invoke systemd-tmpfiles.

I wonder whats really happening. Is dpkg invoking the new postinst 
(at postinst time), but putting "pre-installation" into the log message?

Or is it really invoking the postinst at preinst time?

Both look like a problem to me, and not something that Pre-Depends 
should solve?

Best,
Chris