Bug#3155: spice still on my system

[Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>]

Package: spice
Version: ?

I seem to have spice on my system, I never use it so I want to get rid
of it.  But something happened. Somehow the permissions of the files
included are wrong.

$ ls /usr/doc/examples/spice/
ls: /usr/doc/examples/spice/: Permission denied
$ cd /usr/doc/examples/spice
bash: /usr/doc/examples/spice: Permission denied

The status of spice is very (null):
$ dpkg --status spice
Package `spice' is not installed and no info is available.

Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
$ grep spice /var/lib/dpkg/available
$ grep spice /var/lib/dpkg/status

However a `.list' file exists:
$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/spice.list
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1432 Jul  7  1995 /var/lib/dpkg/info/spice.list

Let's try to remove, purge and listfiles this fellow (all nogo's):
# dpkg --remove spice
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove spice which isn't installed.
# dpkg --purge spice
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove spice which isn't installed.
# dpkg --listfiles spice
Package `spice' is not installed.

Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.


The manual approach:
# cd / && cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/spice.list | xargs -n 1 rm
and the directories by hand.

Where did the spice package go? We might need some cleanup feature with
dpkg to handle these kind of cases.

Erick
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