[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#389973: nagios2-common: purging the package fails (ucf unavailable)

[Bill Allombert]

Package: nagios2-common
Version: 2.5-1
Severity: serious

Hello Debian Nagios Maintainer Group,

There is an error when attempting to purge nagios2-common:
  Removing nagios2-common ...
  Purging configuration files for nagios2-common ...
  No override present.
  No override present.
  No override present.
  No override present.
  No override present.
  No override present.
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios2-common.postrm: line 22: ucf: command not found
  dpkg: error processing nagios2-common (--purge):
   subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127

The postrm script cannot rely on ucf to be available when purging.

See Policy 7.2:
  Note, however, that the `postrm' cannot rely on any non-essential packages to
  be present during the `purge' phase.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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