[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#574222: firebird2.1-classic: package purge (after dependencies removal) fails

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: firebird2.1-classic
Version: 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-7
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 firebird2.1-common firebird2.1-common-doc firebird2.1-server-common
> ifupdown libbsd0 libedit2 libfbembed2.1 libfile-copy-recursive-perl libicu42
> libwrap0 net-tools netbase openbsd-inetd tcpd update-inetd
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 16 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 30.2MB disk space will be freed.
> (Reading database ... 10376 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libfbembed2.1 ...
> Removing firebird2.1-server-common ...
> Removing adduser ...
> Removing firebird2.1-common ...
> Removing firebird2.1-common-doc ...
> Removing ifupdown ...
> Removing libedit2 ...
> Removing libbsd0 ...
> Removing openbsd-inetd ...
> Removing update-inetd ...
> Removing libfile-copy-recursive-perl ...
> Removing libicu42 ...
> Removing tcpd ...
> Removing libwrap0 ...
> Removing net-tools ...
> Removing netbase ...
> -- Purging package: FAILED
> (Reading database ... 10080 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing firebird2.1-classic ...
> Purging configuration files for firebird2.1-classic ...
> dpkg: error processing firebird2.1-classic (--purge):
> subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 30
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> firebird2.1-classic

The full build log is available from:
 http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/03/16/firebird2.1-classic.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.

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