Bug#706110: libgnome{, vfs}2-common: fails to upgrade from squeeze: prerm failure: gconf-schemas: not found

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 16:26:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le jeudi 25 avril 2013 à 15:05 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 
> > A dangling /usr/bin/python symlink is indeed bad. At least that
> > convinced me to never use anything pythonish in the maintainer scripts
> > in the future.
> 
> I don’t think it is a problem for scripts in the postinst, nor in
> triggered scripts. I thought prerm was supposed to be OK as long as
> there are no loops in the upgrade (the policy is vague on the subject),
> but this is not the first such problem I hear of.
> 
It's very much a problem in triggered scripts.

Cheers,
Julien
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