Bug#810655: libembperl-perl: post-installation script returned error

[Rosario Maddox]

Package: libembperl-perl
Version: 2.5.0-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Tried to install it:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libembperl-perl is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Setting up libembperl-perl (2.5.0-4) ...
dpkg: error processing package libembperl-perl (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libembperl-perl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This should not happen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libembperl-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.08-1
ii  libxml2                     2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.28-2+b2
ii  perl                        5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.20.1]  5.20.2-3+deb8u1

Versions of packages libembperl-perl recommends:
ii  apache2-bin [apache2-api-20120211]  2.4.10-10+deb8u3
ii  libapache-sessionx-perl             2.01-4
ii  libcgi-pm-perl                      4.09-1
ii  libfcgi-perl                        0.77-1+b1

Versions of packages libembperl-perl suggests:
pn  libdbix-recordset-perl  <none>
pn  libjs-prototype         <none>
pn  mmm-mode                <none>

-- no debconf information