On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:24:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:29:49AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > > And you unregistered the extension manually to have a clean state if > > > > > it > > > > > failed before? Read the buglog... > > > > > > > > OK, I removed it (forgot the --shared in the last attempt), and now the > > > > package configures. > > > > > > Thanks, so I close this again. > > > > Well, it isn't satisfactory that manual intervention is required for > > anyone who installed 0.5-5. > > > > You said the problem is on the old postinst. Therefore, you can fix it > > No, I didn't. Read again. I changed the *prerm*.
Sorry, my fault. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html > > Will have a look again, though. Thanks. The manual says that if the old prerm fails, dpkg should try the same operation with the new prerm, which you said is fixed. I didn't see it try to do this. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]