ucf merge conflicts results in maintainer script error

Bug #371080 reported by stefanosnikolaou
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Automatically created while upgrading Ubuntu

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

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stefanosnikolaou (stefanosnikolaou) wrote :
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Here is the error:

...
 Conflicts found! Please edit `/etc/samba/smb.conf' and sort them out manually.
 The file `/etc/samba/smb.conf.ucf-new' has a record of the failed merge of the
configuration file.

dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3

I think in this case ucf should be smarter and error but instead offer an additional option to the user.

affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) → ucf (Ubuntu)
summary: - package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade:
- ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg
- returned an error code (1)
+ ucf merge conflicts results in maintainer script error
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