Bug#981330: coturn: wrong logic for the dpkg-statoverride handling in coturn.postrm

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Sun Feb 7 15:47:40 GMT 2021


Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Mika,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Package: coturn
> Version: 4.5.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the coturn.postrm uses a wrong logic for the dpkg-statoverride handling,
> causing to properly handle package (re)installation/removal, quoting from
> a piuparts run:
> 
> | Fetched 36.8 MB in 0s (85.1 MB/s)
> | dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
> |  unknown system group 'turnserver' in statoverride file; the system group got removed
> | before the override, which is most probably a packaging bug, to recover you
> | can remove the override manually with dpkg-statoverride
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> I'll provide a PR as soon as I've a bug number from Debian's BTS.
> 
> FTR: I tend to call this a RC bug, but leaving this up to the
> maintainer to decide (though it would be great if the package gets
> fixed for bullseye).

Not the maintainer here, but I think from policy point of view that
indeed would be RC. I'm raising the severity with this message.

Did you looked alreayd into a fix?

Regards,
Salvatore



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