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From: Christian Pernegger <pernegger@gmail.com>
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Subject: Bug#836583: "reportbug xrdp" fails
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:20:02 +0200
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Hello,

since, in my experience, trying stuff on a fresh sid install has never
fixed anything, I dug a little deeper. Turns out the xrdp upgrade (0.6
branch --> 0.9 branch) had left a conffile mess in /etc/pam.d:
sesman.orig
xrdp-sesman -> sesman [dangling symlink]
xrdp-sesman.dpkg-new

Removing all three and purging-installing xrdp left me with just
xrdp-sesman [plain file] there -- and a working reportbug!

I'd have expected either the purge of 0.6.1 or the one of 0.9.0 to get
rid of such cruft. It didn't, obviously. There wasn't any warning
during install/configure either.

So for me it's fixed, but maybe something can be improved in the
upgrade process?

Also, this had apparently been reported already (against reportbug) as
#826534. Sorry for the dupe. I'll drop a note there but leave it to
you whether to reassign and merge.

Cheers,
C.


2016-10-03 16:57 GMT+02:00 Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de>:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
>> I just tried unsuccessfully to upgrade from 0.6 to 0.9 and wanted to
>> file a couple of reports, but:
>>
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>>
>> Getting status for xrdp...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2247, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1115, in main
>>     return iface.user_interface()
>>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1419, in user_interface
>>     status =3D utils.get_package_status(package)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line
>> 387, in get_package_status
>>     conffiles =3D conffiles + [re.findall(r' (.+) ([0-9a-f]+).*$', line)=
[0]]
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> I just installed xrdp on a fresh sid installation, ran reportbug, and it
> worked just fine.
>
> Please try to reproduce the bug on a fresh sid install and reply with
> how to do it.
>
> Cheers,
> Nik