Bug#706110: libgnome{, vfs}2-common: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm failure: gconf-schemas: not found

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2013, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 25 avril 2013 à 19:45 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : 
> > > I don’t think it is a problem for scripts in the postinst, nor in
> > > triggered scripts. I thought prerm was supposed to be OK as long as
> > > there are no loops in the upgrade (the policy is vague on the subject),
> > > but this is not the first such problem I hear of.
> > > 
> > It's very much a problem in triggered scripts.
> 
> How so? The triggered package has all its dependencies installed and
> configured when running “postinst trigger”, so there shouldn’t be any
> similar problem.

In theory yes, but dpkg has a bug related to this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671711

And Guillem decided to postpone its fix to jessie because it has too many
implications.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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