Bug#296026: dpkg: State wrong when postrm fails on purge.

2005-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:46 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >It seems dpkg sets the state of a package wrong when the purge >failed and it was called with --purge. > Yup, verified with a banana ... The (grossly oversimplified) steps that dpkg goes through are: 1) deferred_remove() is called on the p

Bug#296026: dpkg: State wrong when postrm fails on purge.

2005-02-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.27 Severity: important Hi, It seems dpkg sets the state of a package wrong when the purge failed and it was called with --purge. Currently xfree86-common postrm fails to purge, but the removal itself worked. Starting with: ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window S