found 597132 2:4.02+dfsg-3 thanks I can reproduce this bug, too. It only happens if you have"do_bootloader = yes" in your /etc/kernel-img.conf, so an obvious work-around is to ret rid of it.
# apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/26.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 121199 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-23 (using
.../linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-23_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 ...
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-extlinux 2.6.32-5-686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (2.6.32-23) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-extlinux 2.6.32-5-686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Error setting debconf question linux-image-2.6.32-5-686/postinst/ignoring-do-bootloader-2.6.32-5-686:
Unsupported command "p:" (full line was "P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory...P: Writing
config for /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686...") received from confmodule. at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.postinst line 817, <STDIN> line 3.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
localepurge: checking for existence of /var/cache/localepurge...
localepurge: checking for existence of /var/cache/localepurge/localelist...
localepurge: checking system for new locale ...
localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: processing man pages ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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