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

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> 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)

It gets installed when you don't have Install-Recommends turned
off.


Kurt