Bug#386638: op-panel: fails to unpack

[Diego Andrés Asenjo González]

Package: op-panel
Version: 0.26.dfsg-1
Severity: important

The op-panel package can't be unpacked if the panel daemon is going
to be upgraded and is not running and can't be stopped:

debian # apt-get install op-panel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
 op-panel
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/261kB of archives.
After unpacking 118kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 36285 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace op-panel 0.26.dfsg-1 (using
..../op-panel_0.26.dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
Stopping Flash Operator Panel: op-panelstart-stop-daemon: warning:
failed to kill 998: No such process
1 pids were not killed
No process in pidfile `/var/run/op-panel.pid' found running; none
killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript op-panel, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Stopping Flash Operator Panel: op-panelstart-stop-daemon: warning:
failed to kill 998: No such process
1 pids were not killed
No process in pidfile `/var/run/op-panel.pid' found running; none
killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript op-panel, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/op-panel_0.26.dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/op-panel_0.26.dfsg-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=es_CO, LC_CTYPE=es_CO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages op-panel depends on:
ii  perl                       5.8.4-8sarge5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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