Can you contact the maintainer directly?  (I'm too lazy right now).

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> A small surmountable problem with xml-sax-pm ...
>
> The pakage was installed as a dependancy for xml-simple-pm, from
> current-unstable. The problem was a mkdir command while installing the
> .deb ...
>
> Selecting previously deselected package xml-sax-pm.
> (Reading database ... 13824 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xml-sax-pm (from .../xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> mkdir: /sw/etc/xml/SAX/ParserDetails.d: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing 
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (--install):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
>   ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
>   Failed: can't install package xml-sax-pm-0.12-2
>
> I manually created /sw/etc/xml and /sw/etc/xml/SAX, then re-ran the
> install for xml-simple-pw, which worked fine this time ..
>
> dpkg -i
> 
>/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 13867 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xml-sax-pm (from .../xml-sax-pm_0.12-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> Setting up xml-sax-pm (0.12-2) ...
> update-perl-sax-parsers: adding Perl SAX parser module info file of 
>XML::SAX::PurePerl...
> update-perl-sax-parsers: updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
>
> So, somewhere there is an assumption that /sw/etc/xml/SAX will exist
> before xml-sax-pm is installed, which apears to be wrong.
>
> -jim
>
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