Bug#697393: iceape: post-installation script returned error

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Package: iceape
Version: 2.7.11-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

when installing iceape package, following messages got, and installation failed.

==================>>>
Get:1 http://dmirror/debian/ wheezy/main iceape i386 2.7.11-1 [19.6 MB]
Fetched 19.6 MB in 3s (5,479 kB/s) 
(Reading database ... 94488 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace iceape 2.7.11-1 (using .../iceape_2.7.11-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement iceape ...
Processing triggers for mime-support ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Setting up iceape (2.7.11-1) ...
rm: cannot remove `rm': Is a directory
dpkg: error processing iceape (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 iceape
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
<<<==================

I checked unpacked postinst script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/iceape.postinst)
and found unnecessary backslash escape:

==================>>>
#! /bin/sh
# postinst script for iceape

set -e

....

case "$1" in
    configure)
        rm -f /usr/lib/iceape/.autoreg \ <---------------- HERE
        rm -f /usr/lib/iceape/components/compreg.dat \
              /usr/lib/iceape/components/xpti.dat
        rm -rf /usr/lib/iceape/updates
    ;;
esac

....

exit 0
<<<==================

By removing backslash (with text editor), installation succeded.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceape depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-37
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libffi5                   3.0.10-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.13.6-1
ii  libnss3-1d                2:3.13.6-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.26.0-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-4
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages iceape recommends:
ii  iceape-chatzilla  2.7.11-1

Versions of packages iceape suggests:
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  gconf-service          3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libcanberra0           0.28-6
ii  libgconf-2-4           3.2.5-1+build1
pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-3
ii  libnotify4             0.7.5-1
pn  xul-ext-dom-inspector  <none>

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