[Bug 1529504] [NEW] Alien postinst/prerm scripts expecting integer argument

[Terry Cain]

Public bug reported:

Using Ubuntu 15.04, alien package version 8.93

I was converting an RPM to a deb and supplied --scripts so that it generates the prerm/postinst etc... scripts when installing.
It created the .deb successfully but the postrm and preinst scripts produced an error during install.

In postrm there is an if statement on line 9 which uses "-eq" to check
if 0 and then removes some installed files. From what I've read the
support scripts are called with strings for the first argument, Changed
it to "if [ "$1" = "remove" ];" and that worked as expected.

The same goes for preinst but it should check for "install" (I'm
assuming there are more instances where this occurs).

The file I used was the "QConvergeConsole CLI for Linux (x64)" from
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/SearchByProduct.aspx?ProductCategory=39&Product=935&Os=65

I would attach the RPM but I doubt QLogic would be happy me
redistributing their software.

** Affects: alien (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Alien postinst/prerm scripts expecting integer argument

Status in alien package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using Ubuntu 15.04, alien package version 8.93

  I was converting an RPM to a deb and supplied --scripts so that it generates the prerm/postinst etc... scripts when installing.
  It created the .deb successfully but the postrm and preinst scripts produced an error during install.

  In postrm there is an if statement on line 9 which uses "-eq" to check
  if 0 and then removes some installed files. From what I've read the
  support scripts are called with strings for the first argument,
  Changed it to "if [ "$1" = "remove" ];" and that worked as expected.

  The same goes for preinst but it should check for "install" (I'm
  assuming there are more instances where this occurs).

  The file I used was the "QConvergeConsole CLI for Linux (x64)" from
  http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/SearchByProduct.aspx?ProductCategory=39&Product=935&Os=65

  I would attach the RPM but I doubt QLogic would be happy me
  redistributing their software.

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