[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1082373: nginx: nginx missing pre-depends on nginx-common

[Michael Prokop]

Package: nginx
Version: 1.26.0-2
Severity: important

Hi,

nginx fails to install on Debian testing + unstable:

| [...]
| Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 nginx-common all 1.26.0-2 [108 kB]
| Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 nginx amd64 1.26.0-2 [608 kB]
| Fetched 716 kB in 1s (591 kB/s)
| debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
| Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common.
| (Reading database ... 9992 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.26.0-2_all.deb ...
| Unpacking nginx-common (1.26.0-2) ...
| Selecting previously unselected package nginx.
| Preparing to unpack .../nginx_1.26.0-2_amd64.deb ...
| Unpacking nginx (1.26.0-2) ...
| Setting up nginx (1.26.0-2) ...
| Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
| See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xeu nginx.service" for details.
| invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed.
| × nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
|      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; 5:185mdisabled; preset: enabled)
|      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2024-09-20 12:42:11 UTC; 24ms ago
|  Invocation: dfd641c3677f4bbaa9c8b75e74c6a748
|        Docs: man:nginx(8)
|     Process: 1979 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
|         CPU: 9ms
| 
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc nginx[1979]: 2024/09/20 12:42:11 [emerg] 1979#1979: open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory)
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc nginx[1979]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc systemd[1]: 5:185m5:185mnginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
| Sep 20 12:42:11 f468089c00fc systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
| dpkg: error processing package nginx (--configure):
|  installed nginx package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
| dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nginx-common:
|  nginx-common depends on nginx (>= 1.26.0-2); however:
|   Package nginx is not configured yet.
|  nginx-common depends on nginx (<< 1.26.0-2.1~); however:
|   Package nginx is not configured yet.
| 
| dpkg: error processing package nginx-common (--configure):
|  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  nginx
|  nginx-common
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The configuration file `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf` is shipped only by
the nginx-common package, though nginx doesn't pre-depend on it and
therefore might get installed before nginx-common is present.

PS: Probably should even be raised to RC bug?

regards
-mika-