Re: dpkg -P backuppc fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez@debian.org> schrieb:

> The postinst script seems to be stuck in db_purge, a line which was
> added automatically:

The postinst script is not executed upon purging a package. Probably you
mean the postrm script?

>
> ...
> # Automatically added by dh_installdebconf
> if [ "$1" = purge ] && [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then
>          . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
>          db_purge
> fi
> # End automatically added section
> ...
>
> So it may be a bug in dpkg ?

Please try to debug by putting a "set -x" into
/var/lib/dpkg/info/backuppc.postrm (or prerm, whatever it is). If it
really hangs at db_purge, it may be a bug in debconf. You should know
that. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer