Hi Duncan, thanks for the info. However I'm still unsure why this situation can happen in the first place. Imho the old version should have been removed (and hence the postinst run) before ghc6 is getting upgraded, since it has a versioned dependency on ghc6. I've also just dist-upgraded a gutsy chroot to hardy, and that worked as expected.
One thing that's definitely wrong in the postinst is, that it doesn't support rollback/recovery (i.e. the postinst of the new version, which gets tried if the old one fails, cannot work). I'll forward this to the debian maintainers. Cheers, Stefan. -- package libghc6-mtl-dev 1.0.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
