Bug#512903: tex-common - Fails on purge: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 20
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:14:58AM +0100, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 22:26 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Package: tex-common
> > Version: 1.11.3
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > > Automatic build of tuxguitar_1.0.dak-1 on lxdebian.bfinv.de by sbuild/s390 98
> > [...]
> > > Selecting previously deselected package tex-common.
> > > Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_1.11.3_all.deb) ...
> > > Setting up tex-common (1.11.3) ...
> > > *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
> > > the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
> > > script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
> > > and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
> > > old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!
> > >
> > > Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
>
> This looks very much like Bug#512832 that has been fixed in ucf
> 3.0013 uploaded today. So the problem should go away once this version
> hits sid.
The warnings during install did go away, but during remove, I now
get this instead:
Removing tex-common ...
Purging configuration files for tex-common ...
*** ERROR: Need exactly two arguments, got 1
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