Bug#699647: proftpd-mod-geoip: /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_geoip.so missing after upgrade from sid

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Monday, 27. January 2014 16:22:06 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > Old postrm is broken and will play havoc after the new package was
> > > unpacked. Therefore we have to delete it in the new preinst.
>
> I wonder if the correct fix would be simply moving the Breaks/Replaces in
> the proftpd-basic binary section instead of the proftpd-mod-geoip pkg.
> That would force removing of the old package before proceeding with
> the installation of both -basic and the new package.

Won't work. Even if you ensure via Conflicts/Pre-Depends that the buggy 
package gets removed, the postrm script will stay around. You cannot force a 
package to be purged.
(Changing the module filename would work.)

Andreas

@Guillem: thanks for your clarification regarding --control-path