The reason fontconfig.prerm fails on lenny is the text inserted by
debhelper. It uses language like "foo && do_something". The use of
the '&&' operator prevents the early exit from 'set -e', but it will
still set $? to false if the conditional is false. Since there are no
more statements in the prerm, that becomes its implicit exit status.
It looks like a debhelper bug, but I don't have the energy to figure
out what version of dh introduced or fixed it. A straightforward
workaround is to append a line to the bottom of the prerm:
:
That way it exits successfully no matter which direction the last '&&'
expression went. This is tested to work on my lenny->squeeze system.
Of course, it's probably too late to think about fixing it in lenny
_now_.
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