safe-rm breaks upgrades from 18.04 to 20.04
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I upgraded from bionic to focal this weekend and discovered that one of my packages (safe-rm) can totally break the 20.04 upgrade. Not sure how reproducible it is (I only upgraded once), but I had to remove safe-rm before manually restarting the failed upgrade.
It comes down to the fact that safe-rm takes over the rm command and unfortunately is written in Perl so while Perl isn't quite working (e.g. while it's being upgraded), the rm command is broken :/
I just pushed out a fix to limit the takeover to interactive shells only (https:/
That said, it's a pretty serious issue so probably the best thing for 20.04 might be to conflict on the package somehow to make sure it's uninstalled prior to the upgrade.
I wasn't sure which package to file this bug against so please re-assign if needed.
| François Marier (fmarier) wrote | #1 |
| François Marier (fmarier) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| François Marier (fmarier) wrote | #3 |
I backported the fix to 18.04 in my PPA: https:/
but I don't have an easy way of testing the 18.04-20.04 upgrade so I'm not sure that would be enough to fix what I ran into.