tags 388156 pending thanks Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: tex-common > Version: 0.28 > Severity: serious > > Hello Debian TeX maintainers, > > There is an error when attempting to purge the package: > > Removing tex-common ... > Purging configuration files for tex-common ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tex-common.postrm: line 36: > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: > No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing tex-common (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > You cannot assume debconf to be installed when purging a package. Indeed, you are right. I fear we are not the only ones with that problem, since debconf-devel talks intensively about using debconf in postrm, without mentioning any special care that is needed to avoid this problem. Fixing this is trivial in our case, because debconf isn't used at all (and the debhelper snippet takes care for proper conditional loading itself). But in other cases, it might be more tricky. I guess we should suggest some better wording, and a receipe for debconf-devel(7). What do you think? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
