[debian-mysql] Bug#1031244: mariadb-server.postinst: line 236: [: too many arguments

[Lorenzo Puliti]

Package: mariadb-server
Version: 1:10.11.1-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: plorenzo at disroot.org

Hello,

During the last upgrade of mariadb in Sid, when the unversioned package
replaced the versioned one, I run into the following output:

[...]
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Setting up mariadb-server (1:10.11.1-4) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mariadb ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/mariadb ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server.postinst: line 236: [: too many arguments
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `mariadb' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
[...]

I suspect this is another instance of #1029136. I use apt-get to
upgrade and it doesn't automatically purge removed packages; for
this reason I'm not affected by #1029136 but also I have several
old postrm files in the system

ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/* | grep mariadb-server-
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.0.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.0.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.1.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.1.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.3.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.3.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.5.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.5.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.6.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.6.postrm

So the test in postinstall line 236 fails and dh snippets in postrm files
are not removed.

Regards,
Lorenzo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0van (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit)

Versions of packages mariadb-server depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.131
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]           1.5.82
ii  galera-4                        26.4.13-1
ii  gawk                            1:5.1.0-1
ii  iproute2                        6.1.0-1
ii  libc6                           2.36-8
ii  libdbi-perl                     1.643-4
ii  libpam0g                        1.5.2-6
ii  libssl3                         3.0.8-1
ii  libstdc++6                      12.2.0-14
ii  lsof                            4.95.0-1
ii  mariadb-client                  1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-common                  1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2   1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lz4     1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzma    1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzo     1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-snappy  1:10.11.1-4
ii  mariadb-server-core             1:10.11.1-4
ii  passwd                          1:4.13+dfsg1-1
ii  perl                            5.36.0-7
ii  procps                          2:4.0.2-3
ii  psmisc                          23.6-1
ii  rsync                           3.2.7-1
ii  socat                           1.7.4.4-2
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server recommends:
ii  libhtml-template-perl  2.97-2
ii  pv                     1.6.20-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
ii  mailutils [mailx]  1:3.15-3+b2
pn  mariadb-test       <none>
pn  netcat-openbsd     <none>

-- debconf information:
  mariadb-server/old_data_directory_saved:
  mariadb-server/postrm_remove_databases: false
  mariadb-server/nis_warning: