Bug#1188: dpkg bug???
Package: dpkg
Version: 0.96.63
(Ian, I think it is .63, I'm not at my home machine, it was the latest
dkpk as of the time I talked to you about doing a complete install)
I wiped my tex install to see if I could track down the problem of TeX
not giving me lists of the pages it processed, and had some odd errors
from Dpkg.
Notice the problem with removel of LaTeX. It says ngtclass and
ltxpckg depend on latex, but I've specified in the same line that I
want those packages removed. The same problem occurs with metafont
and tex. Then I get an odd error message concerning an I/O trap! I'm
not sure what that is, I hope it isn't bad. :)
[lestat:~]# dpkg --purge --remove bibtex auctex dvips html2latex hyperlatex latex ltxpckg makeindex metafont mfaddfnt mfbasfnt mfbin mflib mfxyes ngtclass ps2pk tex texbin texlib texttfm xdvi
(Reading database ... 14992 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bibtex ...
Removing auctex ...
dpkg - warning: while removing auctex, directory `/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/auctex' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing auctex, directory `/etc/auctex' not empty so not removed.
Purging configuration files for auctex ...
Removing dvips ...
dpkg - warning: while removing dvips, directory `/usr/lib/texmf/dvips' not empty so not removed.
install-info: deleting entry `* DVIps: (dvips) ...'
Purging configuration files for dvips ...
install-info: no entry for file `dvips'.
Removing html2latex ...
Removing hyperlatex ...
rm -f *~ *.log *.lot *.lof *.idx *.aux *.ps *.makegif *.dvi
rm -f *.html *.gif
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of latex:
ntgclass depends on latex.
ltxpckg depends on latex.
dpkg: error processing latex (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Removing ltxpckg ...
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove makeindex which isn't installed.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of metafont:
textfm depends on metafont.
texbin depends on metafont.
xdvi depends on metafont.
dpkg: error processing metafont (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Removing mfaddfnt ...
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove ngtclass which isn't installed.
Removing ps2pk ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of tex:
ntgclass depends on tex.
latex depends on tex.
dpkg: error processing tex (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove texttfm which isn't installed.
Removing xdvi ...
dpkg - warning: while removing xdvi, directory `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults' not empty so not removed.
Purging configuration files for xdvi ...
packages.c:166: failed assertion `dependtry <= 4'
IOT trap/Abort
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