[Bug 862129] Re: samba postrm depends on packages not guaranteed to be configured

[Steve Langasek]

Analysis of the upgrade logs and further discussion on IRC shows that
it's infeasible to fix this in samba.  The problem arises when perl-
modules is unpacked without libperl5.12/perl-base, and then samba is
unpacked.  Moving the update-inetd code from the postrm to the prerm may
help in some cases, but not in this one, because whichever maintainer
script tries to call update-inetd, the modules will be unavailable to
perl at that point.

Fixing update-inetd to be more robust (i.e., to not require perl-
modules) would help for the future, but would not help for the present
upgrade problems.

I think the only way to fix this reliably is via update-manager.

** Package changed: samba (Ubuntu Oneiric) => update-manager (Ubuntu
Oneiric)

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)

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Title:
  samba postrm depends on packages not guaranteed to be configured

Status in Samba:
  New
Status in “perl” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-inetd” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “perl” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “update-inetd” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “update-manager” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “perl” source package in Precise:
  New
Status in “update-inetd” source package in Precise:
  New
Status in “update-manager” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Continued the installation of bug 862119, doing "sudo apt-get install
  -f" and then "sudo apt-get upgrade" again. After some time this bug
  occured.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Sep 29 10:02:27 2011
  ErrorMessage: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu2
   gvfs     1.8.0-0ubuntu3
  SambaClientRegression: Yes
  SourcePackage: samba
  Title: package samba 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-13 (77 days ago)

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