On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14:58AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> reassign 613280 fontconfig 2.6.0-3
> fixed 613280 2.8.0-2.1
> kthxbye
> 
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 13:09:15 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > Package: upgrade-reports
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > In the process of upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I had fontconfig
> > marked for removal.  However:
> > 
> > Removing fontconfig ...
> > dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--purge):
> >  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > configured to not write apport reports
> >                                       Errors were encountered while 
> > processing:
> >  fontconfig
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > I ended up having to upgrade fontconfig with the rest of the system, and 
> > remove
> > it afterward:
> > 
> > Preparing to replace fontconfig 2.6.0-3 (using 
> > .../fontconfig_2.8.0-2.1_amd64.deb) ...
> > dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 
> > 1
> > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> > dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
> > Unpacking replacement fontconfig ...
> > 
> 2.6.0-3's prerm looks fine to me, so I don't know what happened there.
> If you can reproduce with set -x in the script that would probably help.
> If not, there's probably not much to do since that seems fixed in later
> versions.

I've finished upgrading that system at this point.  If I run into it
again on another upgrade I can try that; otherwise it'll probably
require building and upgrading a system with debootstrap.

- Josh Triplett



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