* When installing openssh-client or openssh-server from scratch, remove

  any unchanged conffiles from the pre-split ssh package to work around a
  bug in sarge's dpkg (thanks, Justin Pryzby and others; closes: #335276).

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/debian/openssh-server.postrm b/debian/openssh-server.postrm
index e7a437260..f63ba4d46 100644
--- a/debian/openssh-server.postrm
+++ b/debian/openssh-server.postrm
@@ -2,26 +2,37 @@
 
 #DEBHELPER#
 
-if [ "$1" = "purge" ]
-then
-    # Remove all non-conffiles that ssh might create, so that we can
-    # smoothly remove /etc/ssh if and only if the user hasn't dropped some
-    # other files in there. Conffiles have already been removed at this
-    # point.
-    rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
-    rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
-    rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
-    rm -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config
-    rm -f /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run
-    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /etc/ssh
-fi
+abort_transfer_conffile () {
+        CONFFILE="$1"
+        if [ -e "$CONFFILE.moved-by-preinst" ]; then
+                echo >&2 "Aborting ownership transfer of conffile $CONFFILE ..."
+                mv -f "$CONFFILE.moved-by-preinst" "$CONFFILE"
+                return 0
+        fi
+}
 
-if [ "$1" = "purge" ] ; then
-    update-rc.d ssh remove >/dev/null
-fi
+case $1 in
+        abort-install|abort-upgrade)
+                abort_transfer_conffile /etc/default/ssh
+                abort_transfer_conffile /etc/init.d/ssh
+                abort_transfer_conffile /etc/pam.d/ssh
+                ;;
+        purge)
+                # Remove all non-conffiles that ssh might create, so that we
+                # can smoothly remove /etc/ssh if and only if the user
+                # hasn't dropped some other files in there. Conffiles have
+                # already been removed at this point.
+                rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
+                rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
+                rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
+                rm -f /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+                rm -f /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run
+                rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /etc/ssh
 
-if [ "$1" = "purge" ] ; then
-        deluser --quiet sshd > /dev/null || true
-fi
+                update-rc.d ssh remove >/dev/null
+
+                deluser --quiet sshd > /dev/null || true
+                ;;
+esac
 
 exit 0