[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#673990: sympa: fails to purge - script in postrm not found

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-3
Severity: important
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to purge due
to a command not found. According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on the
depends being available during purge, only the essential packages are
available for sure.

Filing this as important because a.) it's a clear policy violation (to
not clean up at purge) b.) having a piuparts clean archive is a release
goal since lenny and c.) this package being piuparts buggy blocks
packages depending on it from being tested by piuparts (and thus
possibly the detection of more severe problems).

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Removing sympa ...
  Purging configuration files for sympa ...
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/sympa.postrm: 6: .: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postrm
  dpkg: error processing sympa (--purge):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   sympa

Check the dbconfig-common documentation and examples:
/usr/share/doc/dbconfig-common/


cheers,

Andreas
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