[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#417023: depends on non-essential package debconf in postrm

[Michael Ablassmeier]

Package: nagios-common
Version: 2:1.4-3
Severity: serious
Tags: etch-ignore
Justification: Policy violation, see section 7.2

hi,

while running archive wide piuparts tests your package failed on purge
because of debconf beeing unavailable during postrm:
	
  Purging configuration files for nagios-common ...
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-common.postrm: line 9: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing nagios-common (--purge):
   subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   nagios-common
  
the full log can be found here:

 http://people.debian.org/~abi/piuparts/nagios-common

please be sure to use a conditional call to debconf and its commands (this is
just an example):

--
 if [ -f /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then
    . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
 fi

 db_get ||:
--

Please also note: Bugs filed on Packages failing in postrm because of debconf
beeing unavailable are not considered RC for etch, so are tagged etch-ignore.

bye,
    - michael