On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:49:49AM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > There is an error when attempting to purge the package: > > > > Removing libhtml-mason-perl-examples ... > > Purging configuration files for libhtml-mason-perl-examples ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libhtml-mason-perl-examples.postrm: line 18: > > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processing libhtml-mason-perl-examples (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > > When purging, the postrm cannot assume debconf to be installed. > > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for the bug report. > > As I am not the original author of libhtml-mason-perl-examples.postrm, > and as a new Debian developer, it is not clear to me what the call to > confmodule is doing for the script. If there is any chance that you > could help me understand how to fix this, that would be excelent.
I expect the confmodule call is done to extract data from the debconf database that are needed to purge the package. However this is not always a correct way to use debconf because debconf is not a registry. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large blue swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
