Bug#278537: libgnomevfs2-common: failure to remove

[Colin S. Miller]

Package: libgnomevfs2-common
Version: 2.6.2-2
Severity: normal

When I tried to remove gnome-mime-data, apt-get removed libgnomevfs2-common
however this failed as I had already removed gnome-conf.

Sesson log:-

debian:~# apt-get --purge remove "gnome-mime-data"
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-mime-data* libgnomevfs2-0* libgnomevfs2-common* librsvg2-2*
librsvg2-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 7516kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 95137 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libgnomevfs2-common ...
Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed: Could not make
directory `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-common (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing librsvg2-2 ...
Purging configuration files for librsvg2-2 ...
Removing librsvg2-common ...
Updating the gdk-pixbuf loaders list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Purging configuration files for librsvg2-common ...
dpkg: gnome-mime-data: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
 libgnomevfs2-common depends on gnome-mime-data.
Removing gnome-mime-data ...
Purging configuration files for gnome-mime-data ...
dpkg: libgnomevfs2-0: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
 libgnomevfs2-common depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.6.0).
Removing libgnomevfs2-0 ...
Purging configuration files for libgnomevfs2-0 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libgnomevfs2-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
debian:~#


Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-common depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.6.4-2      GNOME configuration database syste
pn  gnome-mime-data                          Not found.
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.6.2-7      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.2-1      A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0c102                 2.7.0-5      client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.6.4-2      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.7-1      The GLib library of C routines
pn  libgnomevfs2-0                           Not found.
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsmbclient                3.0.7-1      shared library that allows applica
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-3     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info            0.15-1       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-1    compression library - runtime

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