seb gave me some help tracking this down. so the problem with the configuration bombing out when couchdb couldn't be stopped is due to a prerm script returning an exit code if the service could not be stopped. howeveer, the prerm script is not in the couchdb package itself, it was automatically added by dh_installinit.
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