Package: vim-syntastic Version: 3.7.0-1+deb9u2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Tried to remove the package since not used and concerned by security issue. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? sudo apt remove vim-syntastic * What was the outcome of this action? Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: javascript-common libjs-jquery libruby2.1 libyaml-0-2 ruby2.1 rubygems-integration vim-addon-manager Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: vim-syntastic 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 782 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 101184 files and directories currently installed.) Removing vim-syntastic (3.7.0-1+deb9u2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim-syntastic.prerm: 22: /var/lib/dpkg/info/vim-syntastic.prerm: vim-addon-manager: not found dpkg: error processing package vim-syntastic (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: vim-syntastic * What outcome did you expect instead? I expect the package to be removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages vim-syntastic depends on: ii vim 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u1 ii vim-addon-manager 0.5.6 vim-syntastic recommends no packages. Versions of packages vim-syntastic suggests: pn checkstyle <none> pn chktex <none> pn closure-linter <none> pn cppcheck <none> pn foodcritic <none> pn hlint <none> pn lacheck <none> pn libperl-critic-perl <none> pn libxml2-utils <none> pn pep8 <none> pn puppet-lint <none> pn pyflakes <none> pn pylint <none> pn python-flake8 <none> pn sparse <none> pn splint <none> pn tidy <none> -- no debconf information