Bug#361216: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#361216: Reinstalling dictionaries-common)

[Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Max Gilead wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > > Max Gilead wrote:
> > > > I found on packages.debian.org that the missing script is located in
> > > > dictionaries-common package so I tried reinstalling it and it worked. So
> > > > *something* is broken, but not necessarily the post-install script. Log
> > > > below.
> > > and note that openoffice.org-common does depend on dictionaries-common,
> > > which *does* contain the script. You broke it somehow yourself.
> True, but this 'somehow' is by typical use of apt and re-installing
> OO.org packages, so it's possible that control scripts of some related
> package contains dangerous code which broke dictionaries-common install.

I do not think any control script anywhere has code to remove that
script (that would be a serious bug). I tend to think you experienced some
sort of failure in your system. Have your partitions been nearly full
recently?

-- 
Agustin