Hi Team; Bug #662748 results from a broken postrm in squeeze. Unfortunately the usual "kill the postrm in the new preinst" trick won't help here, since the bug is about manual removal.
In fact the underlying problem is more serious than described in the bug. "apt-get remove highlight" removes a file belonging to highlight-common, and hence breaks libhighlight-perl if the user has that installed. Apparently people haven't encountered this very often, luckily, perhaps because it does not manifest by upgrading, only by manual removal of highlight (but leaving highlight-common). The same fix has been applied sid, but formally it can't be tested there. I did test in a squeeze chroot, remove, distupgrade works smoothly with this fix. Also, I verified that (surprise!) the conffile belonging to highlight-common is no longer deleted by removing highlight. Debdiff follows, diff -Nru highlight-2.16/debian/changelog highlight-2.16/debian/changelog --- highlight-2.16/debian/changelog 2010-04-02 09:04:24.000000000 -0300 +++ highlight-2.16/debian/changelog 2012-03-07 09:40:18.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +highlight (2.16-1+squeeze1) squeeze; urgency=low + + * remove faulty postrm; this script caused a file owned by + highlight-common to be removed when highlight is removed. + (Closes: #662748). + + -- David Bremner <brem...@debian.org> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:17:12 -0400 + highlight (2.16-1) unstable; urgency=low * New Upstream Version diff -Nru highlight-2.16/debian/postrm highlight-2.16/debian/postrm --- highlight-2.16/debian/postrm 2010-04-02 09:04:24.000000000 -0300 +++ highlight-2.16/debian/postrm 1969-12-31 20:00:00.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# postrm script for highlight -# -# see: dh_installdeb(1) -set -e - - -CONFDIR=/etc/highlight -if [ -d $CONFDIR ] -then -#DEBHELPER# - FILES="`ls $CONFDIR |xargs`" - case "$1" in - purge|remove) - for f in $FILES - do - file=$CONFDIR/$f - if [ -f $file ] - then - rm -f $file - fi - - done - rm -rf $CONFDIR - ;; - esac -fi - -exit 0 - -
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