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Re: libc4 upgrade -- Ouch!



> > Unpacking replacement libc4 ...
> > rm: linux: is a directory
> > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> > dpkg: error processing /lump/deb/unbin/devel/libc4-4.6.27-13.deb (--install):
> >  there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up

Hmm, this didn't happen to me.  I suppose I can make a new revision
with a postrm that doesn't do anything.  That should work around the
problem.

> The problem here is that the libc4 maintainer scripts are buggy.

One could argue that dpkg should not consider the absense of a postrm
script in the new package as an error.

David
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