Bug#38604: Dpkg segfaults when purging a directory

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Le Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:17:11PM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a écrivait:
> 	Dpkg segfaults when doing --purge on a package whose directory (of
> config files for example) has been already removed manually. I know this
> should not be done by sysadmins, but neither should the packager segfault
> in this case. Recommended action in --purge should be:

I think that your problem is different. It's the big locale problem that
dpkg has. When dpkg want to translate the error message 'Cannot remove
directory' (or something similar) it cores dump.

Please try it with dpkg 1.4.0.35, the problem shouldn't happen.
Alternatively you can use LC_ALL=C when you're using dpkg.

Cheers,

PS: dpkg 1.4.0.35 is in proposed-updates ...
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