[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#840832: galileo-daemon: fails to purge: deluser options need perl-modules to be installed

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: galileo-daemon
Version: 0.5.1-1
Severity: important
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge.
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...):

1m25.2s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/tmp/piupartss/tmp5D7IYJ', 'dpkg', '--purge', 'galileo-daemon']
1m25.7s DUMP: 
  (Reading database ... 4408 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing galileo-daemon (0.5.1-1) ...
  Purging configuration files for galileo-daemon (0.5.1-1) ...
  /usr/sbin/deluser: In order to use the --remove-home, --remove-all-files, and --backup features,
  you need to install the `perl-modules' package. To accomplish that, run
  apt-get install perl-modules.
  dpkg: error processing package galileo-daemon (--purge):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   galileo-daemon
1m25.7s DEBUG: Command failed (status=1), but ignoring error: ['chroot', '/tmp/piupartss/tmp5D7IYJ', 'dpkg', '--purge', 'galileo-daemon']


cheers,

Andreas
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