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

[Stephan Michels]

On 12/7/05, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> > | 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.
>
> Well, there's no code that I can see in eclipse that would touch a
> /usr/local symlink.

eclipse-rcp.prerm should remove only /usr/local/lib/eclipse if it's empty, just
like the python package. Before /usr/local/lib/eclipse was part of
eclipse-platform.dirs, which wasn't good.
Maybe the conversion was guilty for the lost of your
/usr/local/lib/eclipse directory.
But /usr/local/lib or /usr/local should be touched.

> > 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)
>
> Heh, now that's a bug I can confirm; the prerm will fail because it calls
> rmdir on directories that may not be empty, and doesn't trap the errors.

I will look at it, thanks.

Stephan Michels.