Bug#403641: tetex-base: postrm fails if just unpackaged.

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 3.0.dfsg.3-3
Severity: serious

Hi,

It seems that you can't uninstall the package if things aren't set up
properly.

>From the buildd log I see:
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base.
Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_3.0.dfsg.3-3_all.deb) ...
[...]
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
apt-get failed.
Package installation failed
Trying to reinstall removed packages:
Trying to uninstall newly installed packages:
  /usr/bin/sudo dpkg --root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable --purge adduser dbus debhelper defoma docbook docbook-to-man ed file fontconfig-config gettext gettext-base html2text intltool-debian libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-dev libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libice6 libjpeg62 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagic1 libpaper1 libpng12-0 libpoppler0c2 libsm6 libsp1c2 libt1-5 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 locales mime-support odbcinst1debian1 pkg-config po-debconf sgml-base sgml-data sp sun-java5-bin sun-java5-demo sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-jre tetex-base tetex-bin tex-common tex4ht tex4ht-common ttf-dejavu ucf unixodbc whiptail x11-common xml-core
[...]
Removing tetex-base ...
update-language: cannot read /etc/texmf/language.d/00tex.cnf
dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1


The buildd log is at:
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=libdbus-java;ver=1.12-1;arch=amd64;stamp=1166177715


Kurt