[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#469695: Bug#469695: request-tracker3.6: postinstall of package dies on syntax error for RT_SiteConfig.pm

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:31:03AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> Package: request-tracker3.6
> Version: 3.6.6-2~experimental1
> Severity: normal

> Looking at the file, /etc/request-tracker3.6/RT_SiteConfig.pm, we see
> that there is some issues with commenting out of code:
> 
> # SQLite needs a special case, since $DatabaseName must be a full pathname
> #if ("" ne "sqlite3") {
> #    Set($DatabaseName , '');
> } else {
> ##    Set($DatabaseName , '/');
> }
> # end   /etc/request-tracker3.6/RT_SiteConfig.d/51-dbconfig-common

Thanks for testing this! It looks like I didn't test the 'opting out of
dbconfig-common' branch quite properly after all...

I don't quite understand why the postinst would die from this error,
though. Were you upgrading a previous installation or installing a
new one? I assume you answered 'No' to the 'Configure database for
request-tracker3.6 with dbconfig-common' question?

In any case, I'm uploading a fix right now for the syntax error problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org