Bug#325361: libpango1.0-common: Postinstallation script dies because /etc/defoma/config/pango.conf has not been unpacked

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

tags 325361 + unreproducible
severity 325361 normal
thanks

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 19:20:55 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I did some investigating and found that /etc/defoma/config/pango.conf is
> supposed to be provided by libpango1.0-common, but did not in fact exist.
> I don't know why it wasn't unpacked before the postinst ran,

That file is in the package and should have been installed on the system at
the point the postinst ran. It is not a bug of the postinst script that it
assumes this file is already installed on the system; see
	http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase

The only scenarios I can think of in which this type of problem occurs are
ones that involve either a bug in dpkg or something on the system
interfering with files owned by the package management system (deliberately
or accidentally e.g. through filesystem corruption). These are not scenarios
that a regular package's postinst script needs to take into account. I have
tagged this report accordingly.

If you can provide us with a scenario with which to reproduce this problem
which doesn't have these characteristics, please let us know.

Ray
-- 
Scary piece of history:
`The very first use of Unix in the "real business" of Bell Labs was to type
and produce patent applications'
	Dennis Ritchie in http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html