apt-key warnings during package upgrade

[shibumi]

Hello, again! I noticed this in my apt upgrade logs today and thought I'd point it out.

Setting up bcompare (4.2.5-23088) ...
Warning: The postinst maintainerscript of the package bcompare
Warning: seems to use apt-key (provided by apt) without depending on gnupg or gnupg2.
Warning: This will BREAK in the future and should be fixed by the package maintainer(s).
Note: Check first if apt-key functionality is needed at all - it probably isn't!
Warning: apt-key should not be used in scripts (called from postinst maintainerscript of the package bcompare)

I'm going to guess you already know about this, but just in case...

Thanks for the awesome product!

[Aaron]

Thanks for the update. It is something we're investigating.

[shibumi]

Thanks for the update. It is something we're investigating.

Awesome. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks!

[darhaywa]

Did this ever get fixed, I noticed this today?.

Setting up bcompare (4.3.0-24364) ...
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/kservices5/': Not a directory
Warning: The postinst maintainerscript of the package bcompare
Warning: seems to use apt-key (provided by apt) without depending on gnupg or gnupg2.
Warning: This will BREAK in the future and should be fixed by the package maintainer(s).
Note: Check first if apt-key functionality is needed at all - it probably isn't!
Warning: apt-key should not be used in scripts (called from postinst maintainerscript of the package bcompare)

[darhaywa]

Answered here

[Chris]

The apt-key warning in Beyond Compare's .deb Linux package is fixed in version 4.3.5.

[SandJ]

I am running Linux and it offered to update Beyond Compare from v4.4.0 to v4.4.1
As it was doing so I saw the message "cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/kservices5/': Not a directory" but I did not record any other messages.

[SandJ]

Found the log file:

Log started: 2021-12-21 15:13:03
Preparing to unpack .../bcompare_4.4.1-26165_amd64.deb ...^M
Unpacking bcompare (4.4.1-26165) over (4.4.0-25886) ...^M
Preparing to unpack .../firefox_95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...^M
Unpacking firefox (95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...^M
Preparing to unpack .../firefox-locale-en_95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...^M
Unpacking firefox-locale-en (95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (95.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...^M
Setting up firefox (95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...^M
Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.^M
Setting up bcompare (4.4.1-26165) ...^M
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/kservices5/': Not a directory^M
Setting up firefox-locale-en (95.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...^M
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...^M
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...^M
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...^M
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...^M
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...^M
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) ...^M
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...^M
Log ended: 2021-12-21 15:14:47

[Aaron]

Which version of Linux are you running?

[SandJ]

Which version of Linux are you running?

Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 64-bit

[Chris]

Thank you. I tested a default install of BC 4.4.1 as well as an upgrade of BC 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 via apt on Xubuntu 20.04 and it didn't generate the error.

The install/upgrade script tries to install the KDE context menu if /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/ exists. That directory doesn't exist on a default install of Xubuntu 20.04 64-bit. It's likely some additional software installed on your system created the folder so Beyond Compare tried to install the file. Since you're not using KDE, the failure shouldn't cause any issues.

[SandJ]

Thank you for investigating and for explaining.

I do have a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins directory. I can see it was created when I installed NextCloud some months ago.