Package: pyracerz
Version: 0.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
1) Installation of pyracerz aborts with these messages:
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# aptitude install pyracerz
[...]
Setting up pyracerz (0.2-2) ...
usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f]
update-python-modules: error: /usr/share/games/pyracerz is not in the
python-support directory.
dpkg: error processing pyracerz (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
pyracerz
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up pyracerz (0.2-2) ...
An override for "/usr/games/pyracerz" already exists, but --force specified so
will be ignored.
usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f]
update-python-modules: error: /usr/share/games/pyracerz is not in the
python-support directory.
dpkg: error processing pyracerz (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
pyracerz
#
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2) Alas, the only partially installed pyracerz cannot be removed either:
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# aptitude remove pyracerz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
python-psyco
The following packages will be REMOVED:
pyracerz
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 6033kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 124492 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pyracerz ...
usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f]
update-python-modules: error: /usr/share/games/pyracerz is not in the
python-support directory.
dpkg: error processing pyracerz (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing python-psyco ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
pyracerz
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
#
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"dpkg --force-all --remove pyracerz" didn't help, but produced the
same error messages.
I would be glad if someone could tell me how to remove the broken
package. Alas, on #debian, no-one knew (today).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages pyracerz depends on:
ii libsdl-ttf2.0-0 2.0.8-3 ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii python 2.4.3-11 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-pygame 1.7.1release-4 SDL bindings for games development
Versions of packages pyracerz recommends:
pn python-psyco <none> (no description available)
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