[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#574213: firebird2.5-super: package purge (after dependencies removal) fails

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: firebird2.5-super
Version: 2.5.0.25920~ReleaseCandidate2.ds2-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: instest-20100316 instest

Hi,

While testing the installation of all packages in unstable, I ran
into the following problem:

> -- Removing all dependencies: OK
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> adduser firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common
> libbsd0 libedit2 libfbclient2 libib-util libicu42
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 26.0MB disk space will be freed.
> (Reading database ... 10221 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing firebird2.5-server-common ...
> Removing adduser ...
> Removing libfbclient2 ...
> Removing firebird2.5-common ...
> Removing libib-util ...
> Removing firebird2.5-common-doc ...
> Removing libedit2 ...
> Removing libbsd0 ...
> Removing libicu42 ...
> -- Purging package: FAILED
> (Reading database ... 10072 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing firebird2.5-super ...
> Purging configuration files for firebird2.5-super ...
> dpkg: error processing firebird2.5-super (--purge):
> subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 30
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> firebird2.5-super

The full build log is available from:
 http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/03/16/firebird2.5-super.log

It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot, using
the debconf Noninteractive frontend, and priority: critical.

This test was carried out using about 50 AMD64 nodes of the Grid'5000
platform.  Internet was not accessible from the nodes.

-- 
| Lucas Nussbaum
| lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net   http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ |
| jabber: lucas at nussbaum.fr             GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |