Bug#434598: op-panel: Cannot be uninstalled

[Jim Thomas]

This is happening here too.  op-panel 0.27.dfsg-1, unstable dist.
I installed asterisk and destar to experiment, then removed them.
op-panel will not uninistall.

# aptitude remove op-panel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  op-panel 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1143kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 228474 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing op-panel ...
No alternatives for op-panel.
dpkg: error processing op-panel (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Flash Operator Panel: op-panel.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 op-panel
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      

(aptitude install op-panel)

# dpkg --purge op-panel
(Reading database ... 228474 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing op-panel ...
No alternatives for op-panel.
dpkg: error processing op-panel (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Flash Operator Panel: op-panel.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 op-panel

Regards, Jim