Bug#390823: apache2-common cannot be purged.
Package: apache2-common
Version: 2.0.55-4.2
Severity: serious
it should have been made an empty package, without maintainer scripts,
so that it could be purged, as it's superseeded with apache2.2-common.
[madcoder mad] LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg --purge apache2-common
(Reading database ... 142646 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apache2-common ...
Purging configuration files for apache2-common ...
find: /etc/apache2: Permission denied
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/apache2 exists during rc.d purge (use -f to
force)
dpkg: error processing apache2-common (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apache2-common
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