[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#358364: postrm not idempotent

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Mon Apr 16 16:38:50 UTC 2007


found 358364 0.10
thanks


It seems this is back:
excelsior:~# ls -l /var/lib/xml-core/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Apr 16 16:22 catalog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 304 Apr 16 16:22 xml-core
excelsior:~# apt-get remove xml-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xml-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 254kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 10006 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xml-core ...
excelsior:~# ls -l /var/lib/xml-core/
ls: /var/lib/xml-core/: No such file or directory
excelsior:~# dpkg --purge xml-core
(Reading database ... 9971 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xml-core ...
Purging configuration files for xml-core ...
rmdir: /var/lib/xml-core: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xml-core (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xml-core
excelsior:~#


Kurt





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