First, I hope you got your apt/synaptic working again (dpkg -r, maybe with some force options might help).
I started to look at this bug, but got stuck for the moment, since I cannot duplicate your setup. * the problem seems to be with the prerm scripts of version 1.0.1-2 * version 1.0.1-2 is not in lenny, or in sid. * the source package from snapshot.debian.net is not buildable, and the prebuilt deb is not installable in current sid because of versioned depends on ghc-6.6 It doesn't seem that this bug is necessarily release critical for lenny, since it only affects people upgrading from testing/unstable. Obviously it would be good to know if it affects people upgrading from etch. If no one beats me to it, I'll see about making an etch chroot to test this. Of course it would be nice if the prerm scripts in the current package could recover somehow; this probably requires someone who understands cabal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]