I recently ended up with a package that refused to either install or remove with dpkg or apt-get. The package was bplay; the version is 0.96-7, which is current in slink. It refused to run either the postinst or the prerm script, erroring out of each with "install-mime: command not found". Today, after a lot of experimentation, I was able to get bplay to install by installing mime-support first.
Can somebody confirm or deny that bplay should require or suggest mime-support (or at least check that it is present before trying to run install-mime) and if so, file a bug report? Thanks, Stuart.
