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[lucid] Sync from Debian: fixes dpkg-statoverride error on package removal

Bug #537025 reported by Aaron Haviland
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnokii

Seen with Lucid's version of gnokii-cli/0.6.28.dfsg-1

This is reported in debian bug #563317, and fix released in gnokii/0.6.28.dfsg-2

postrm will fail because "groupdel gnokii" comes before "dpkg-statoverride --remove"

TEST CASE:
1. apt-get install gnokii-cli
2. apt-get remove --purge gnokii-cli
3. apt-get install gnokii-cli

VERIFICATION DONE:
. The package is removed cleanly and you can reinstall it

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Changed in gnokii:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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taj (othertaj) wrote :

After purge of gnokii (completely remove in synaptic), apparently gnokii is removed as group, causing problems with dpkg/apt

Backup of /etc/group and renaming of /etc/group~ to /etc/group solves the problem

Message when running apt-get:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown group 'gnokii' in statoverride file

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AmenophisIII (amenophisiii) wrote :

as mentioned in the debian report this fixed it for me:
sudo groupadd gnokii
dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev
groupdel gnokii

Changed in gnokii (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Maverick Meerkat.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

Changed in gnokii (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Nominating for SRU in Lucid:
- Removal of gnokii-cli leaves dpkg in a broken state and unusable. (See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563307 dpkg-statoverride fails if wrong group in /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride )

- Regression: None. The user is removed after the call to dpkg-statoverride rather than before.

Changed in gnokii (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

I'm not sure about the version, so feel free to change if needed.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Please sponsor to lucid-proposed. Thanks.

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

uploaded to lucid-proposed

Changed in gnokii (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted gnokii into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

SRU verification for Lucid:
I have reproduced the problem with gnokii-cli 0.6.28.dfsg-1 in lucid and have verified that the version of gnokii-cli 0.6.28.dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 in -proposed fixes the issue.

Marking as verification-done

description: updated
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnokii - 0.6.28.dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

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gnokii (0.6.28.dfsg-1ubuntu0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/gnokii-cli.postrm: remove group after statoverride (LP: #537025)
 -- Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:29:27 +0200

Changed in gnokii (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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