I've worked on the package to try and overcome the issue in the meantime. I've used --noscripts and added the python-support bits in the package postinst and prerm and now things work.
One mistake in the former email is that there is no need (and it's impossible) to do the removal of pysupport copied files in the postrm since the files were removed by that stage, it's unneeded since the postrm for the dh_installinit only removes the init script and doesn't try to stop the daemon. The solution for me was as suggested before, to reverse the order of the dh_installinit and pysupport in the prerm part so that the order now is: postinst: - pysupport - dh_installinit prerm: - dh_installinit - pysupport Cheers, Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]