[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#660346: dcmtk: fails to purge - command in postrm not found

[Holger Levsen]

Package: dcmtk
Version: 3.6.0-9
Severity: important
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi, 

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge due to a 
command not found. According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the depends 
being available during purge, only the essential packages are available for 
sure.

Filing this as important because a.) it's a clear policy violation (to not 
clean up at purge) b.) having a piuparts clean archive is a release goal 
since lenny and c.) this package being piuparts buggy blocks packages 
depending on it from being tested by piuparts (and thus possibly the 
detection of more severe problems).

From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

0m22.8s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', 
'/org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmplbp3uU', 'eatmydata', 'dpkg', '--purge', 
'dcmtk']
0m22.8s DUMP: 
  (Reading database ... 6598 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing dcmtk ...
  Purging configuration files for dcmtk ...
  rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/dcmtk/db': Directory not empty
  dpkg: error processing dcmtk (--purge):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   dcmtk


cheers,
	Holger
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