On Monday, 27. January 2014 16:22:06 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > Old postrm is broken and will play havoc after the new package was > > > unpacked. Therefore we have to delete it in the new preinst. > > I wonder if the correct fix would be simply moving the Breaks/Replaces in > the proftpd-basic binary section instead of the proftpd-mod-geoip pkg. > That would force removing of the old package before proceeding with > the installation of both -basic and the new package.
Won't work. Even if you ensure via Conflicts/Pre-Depends that the buggy package gets removed, the postrm script will stay around. You cannot force a package to be purged. (Changing the module filename would work.) Andreas @Guillem: thanks for your clarification regarding --control-path -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
