Bug#468202: openoffice.org-writer2latex: still occurring with 0.5-6

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:00:58PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The problem here might be that the prerm didn't actually fail in
> the sense that it returned an exitcode != 0... But it failed to do its
> job.
> 
> unopkg often returns 0 even if it failed..

So, the new postinst fails because the old prerm failed to do its work
(although it returned success)? In that case can't you simply deal with
this in the new postinst?


Thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>