Bug#498771: discover: Cannot uninstall
Package: discover
Version: 2.1.2-2
Severity: normal
Uninstalling discover from my system is failing:
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 318892 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing discover ...
dpkg: error processing discover (--remove):
cannot remove file `/usr/share/man/man5/discover-modprobe.conf.5.gz': Not a directory
Removing libdiscover2 ...
dpkg: error processing libdiscover2 (--remove):
cannot remove file `/usr/share/man/man5/discover.conf.5.gz': Not a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
discover
libdiscover2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages discover depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
pn libdiscover2 <none> (no description available)
discover recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
discover/install_hw_packages:
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