Bug#518975: myspell-en-us: Fails to purge.

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:03:41AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
 
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Package: myspell-en-us
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-5
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Your package is failing to purge:
> > Removing myspell-en-us ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/myspell-en-us.postrm: line 6:
> > update-openoffice-dicts: command not found
> > dpkg: error processing myspell-en-us (--purge):
> >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> 
> Unfortunately that will happen for almost all myspell-*/hunspell-*. dicts...
> They just depend on dictionaries-common ...
> 
> > See
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=compiz;ver=0.7.6-7%2Bb1;arch=amd64;stamp=1236514669
> > for a log file.
> 
> ... and dictionaries-common gets remove before myspell-en-us.

which should never happen, unless apt is buggy.

Looking at the logs, seems that failure is pretty random. As a matter of fact
there was no such failure in 0.7.6-7. Furthermore, compiz 0.7.6-7 seems to not
use at all myspell-en-us, 

0.7.6-7+b1 [amd64 i386] also fail, but for the other arches myspell-en-us is
not even used at all.

For 0.7.6-8 [ia64] myspell-en-us is again used and failure happens, but not
for any other arch. Again for all other arches there is no mention of
myspell-en-us.

Seems we have a serious problem with the autobuilders, not with myspell-en-us.
apt seems to sometimes behave badly and load unrelated packages
(myspell-en-us is not in Build-depends and looking at it I cannot imagine
which package has pulled it)

-- 
Agustin