Bug#468202: openoffice.org-writer2latex: still occurring with 0.5-6
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:24:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:29:49AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > > Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > > > And you unregistered the extension manually to have a clean state if it
> > > > > failed before? Read the buglog...
> > > >
> > > > OK, I removed it (forgot the --shared in the last attempt), and now the
> > > > package configures.
> > >
> > > Thanks, so I close this again.
> >
> > Well, it isn't satisfactory that manual intervention is required for
> > anyone who installed 0.5-5.
> >
> > You said the problem is on the old postinst. Therefore, you can fix it
>
> No, I didn't. Read again. I changed the *prerm*.
Sorry, my fault.
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html
>
> Will have a look again, though.
Thanks. The manual says that if the old prerm fails, dpkg should try the
same operation with the new prerm, which you said is fixed. I didn't see
it try to do this.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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