Bug#342305: eclipse: today installation erase all data in /usr/local/lib

[Encolpe Degoute]

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Steve Langasek a écrit :
| severity 342305 important
| tags 342305 unreproducible moreinfo
| thanks
|
| On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:38:31PM +0100, Encolpe DEGOUTE wrote:
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|>Package: eclipse
|>Version: 3.1.1-6
|>Severity: critical
|>Justification: causes serious data loss
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|>encolpe at gosseyn:~$ ls -lh /usr/local/lib/
|>total 4,0K
|>drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4,0K 2005-12-06 23:30 eclipse
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| Sorry, this is completely not reproducible here.  The eclipse-rcp package
| *creates* directories under /usr/local/ib; there is no code in the package
| postinst that would remove anything.
|
| Have you upgraded other packages recently that could have been to
blame for
| removing /usr/local/lib?

In fact, the symbolic link /usr/local was delete and only eclipse stuff
was in it.

I can't replay it to give you more informations:

root at gosseyn:~# LANG=C apt-get install --reinstall eclipse-rcp
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 86 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.1kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 364668 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace eclipse-rcp 3.1.1-6 (using
.../eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
~ subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
~ /var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-rcp_3.1.1-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


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