[Bug 862129] Re: samba postrm depends on packages not guaranteed to be configured

[Steve Langasek]

Analysis of the upgrade logs and further discussion on IRC shows that
it's infeasible to fix this in samba.  The problem arises when perl-
modules is unpacked without libperl5.12/perl-base, and then samba is
unpacked.  Moving the update-inetd code from the postrm to the prerm may
help in some cases, but not in this one, because whichever maintainer
script tries to call update-inetd, the modules will be unavailable to
perl at that point.

Fixing update-inetd to be more robust (i.e., to not require perl-
modules) would help for the future, but would not help for the present
upgrade problems.

I think the only way to fix this reliably is via update-manager.

** Package changed: samba (Ubuntu Oneiric) => update-manager (Ubuntu
Oneiric)

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)

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