Bug#442408: live-helper: fails to uninstall the 1st time

[debian at foolab.org (Mohammed Sameer)]

Package: live-helper
Version: 1.0~a27-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

Trying to remove live-helper fails the first time:
Removing live-helper ...
update-alternatives: unable to remove /usr/share/live-helper/includes: Inappropriate ioctl for device
dpkg: error processing live-helper (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

Trying to remove it again succeeds with a warning:
dpkg - warning: while removing live-helper, directory `/usr/share/live-helper' not empty so not removed.
vader:~# ls -lh /usr/share/live-helper/includes
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2007-08-06 01:49 etch
vader:~# 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages live-helper depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.4.3      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.3      Bootstrap a basic Debian system

live-helper recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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