Bug#2436: bash with shared readline library breaks ncurses3.0 postinst script

[bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

This particular bug hit me during the assembly of the base archive.
The base archive is made by first running dpkg-deb --extract to unpack
all of the base packages without configuring them. Then a small script
moves things into place that would have been moved by postinst scripts.
Then "ldconfig" and a mount of "/proc" are run in a chroot context.
This gives an environment in which the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts can
run in the chroot context. Then dpkg is run to re-install (properly) all
of the packages that have just been unpacked.

Ncurses failed to install during the above procedure. Building my own
version of ncurses3.0-*.deb without the preinst and prerm scripts solved
the problem.

	Bruce
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