Debian Bug report logs - #929706
sgml-base: preinst may fail *silently*

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: sgml-base: preinst may fail *silently*

Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 14:29:08 +0200

Package: sgml-base
Version: 1.29
Tags: patch
User: treinen@debian.org
Usertags: colis-shparser

Hello,

the preinst of sgml-base contains

  if [ ! -d /var/lib/sgml-base ]
  then
    mkdir /var/lib/sgml-base 2>/dev/null
  fi

and then the same for /etc/sgml. The problem is that this fails
when /var/lib/sgml-base or /etc/sgml is a regular file, and will do
that without any error message.

I suggest to replace the whole preinst script by

if [ "$1" = "install" -o "$1" = "upgrade" ]
then
  mkdir -p /var/lib/sgml-base /etc/sgml
fi

-Ralf.
-- 
Ralf Treinen
Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale
Équipe Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes
Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
http://www.irif.fr/~treinen/

Message #10 received at 929706-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 929706-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#929706: fixed in sgml-base 1.31

Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:19:17 +0000

Source: sgml-base
Source-Version: 1.31
Done: Holger Levsen <holger@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sgml-base, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 929706@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Holger Levsen <holger@debian.org> (supplier of updated sgml-base package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:03:38 +0200
Source: sgml-base
Architecture: source
Version: 1.31
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Holger Levsen <holger@debian.org>
Closes: 929706 1006646
Changes:
 sgml-base (1.31) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload by the Reproducible Builds team.
   * tools/update-catalog: make sure the catalog is sorted, to support building
     reproducible rootfs with sgml-base installed, else
     /var/lib/sgml-base/supercatalog changes on every postinst run. Thanks to
     Nguyen Thi Huong <huong4.nguyenthi@toshiba.co.jp> for the patch.
     Closes: #1006646
   * Simplify preinst and also make sure it doesn't silently fail. Thanks to
     Ralf Treinen for the patch. Closes: #929706
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