[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#534346: Bug#534346: Upgrading from 3.8.2 to 3.8.3 with rt-setup-database

[Dominic Hargreaves]

tags 534346 +wontfix
tags 534346 -unreproducible
tags 534346 -moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:09:54PM +0200, Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > Thanks for taking the time to write about this.
> > 
> > It does seem plausible that the problems described in this bug were 
> > caused by left behind schema files; however, the intention was that
> > they be removed. The postinst now removes unmodified config from /etc
> > (as of 3.8.2-1).
> > 
> > It would be interesting to know exactly which versions you had installed,
> > and also whether the old schema files that were left behind match the
> > MD5sums in /usr/share/request-tracker3.8/debian/old_etc.md5sum (since
> > that would indicate a bug in the postinst removal script fragment).
> 
> 3.8.2-1~experimental1, rebuilt for lenny.
> 
> Not quite sure what other versions has at some point been installed on
> the same machine, things have moved around a bit.
> 
> The schema/acl files all match the md5sums, except for
> /etc/request-tracker3.8/old_package_stuff/upgrade/schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl,
> which doesn't exist.
> 
> > I don't think we anticipated that left-behind schema files would be a
> > problem, though; we were just tidying up for neatness.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether it's worth fixing this in the package now, since
> > the problem should only exist for people who installed from experimental
> > over a year ago.
> 
> Yeah, presumably this is just a problem for a few old versions from
> experimental, so probably not worth spending energy on. At least now
> there's a solution if anybody else googles the problem.

Okay, I have set the bug tags accordingly. I don't think there is a
suitable tag to describe the situation exactly, though :)

If anyone reading this thinks they are experiencing the same problem
having never installed a version of the package from experimental, 
please comment.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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