Bug#329759: libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0: prerm failure: gconftool-2: command not found

[Loïc Minier]

tags 329759 unreproducible
thanks

        Hi,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> on purging the package I get this error:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0.prerm: line 9: gconftool-2: command not found
> 
> I see that gconftool-2 is in libgconf2-4, which is a dependency, however
> on my system libgconf2-4 is already deleted, so now I have no chance
> to purge libgstreamer-gconf0.8.0.
> 
> I suggest to ignore the gconftool-2 call if it does not exist.

 libgstreamer-gconf-0.8-0 Depends on libgconf2-4.  The Debian policy
 says:

Depends
    This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be
    configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field
    have been correctly configured.
    [...]
    The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or
    postrm scripts require the package to be present in order to run.

 prerm is not called during purge.  I think your package is in state
 broken under whatever package manager your use.  Please report the
 output of: dpkg -C

   Bye,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>