Martin Schulze writes ("Bug#2518: gpm: configuring on removal, huh?"):
> Package: gpm
> Revision: 1.00-1
>
> If I try to remove the gpm package I'm asked to configure it. This
> can't be correct, can it?
This is more or less correct. It tried to remove it and failed, so it
tried to put it back (which means configuring it).
The bug is that gpm shouldn't ask you to configure it more than once
:-).
Ian.