Problems removing kdebase

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke <juh@pironet.de>]

Hi Debians!

I am running potato. Some days ago I removed xdm, and apt-get tried to
remove all the kde-packages with it. Only kdebase was not removed. Now
it is impossible to dist-upgrade new files.

This is the errormessage:

8<----------------------------schnipp------------------------------
Removing kdebase ...
dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kdebase
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
8<----------------------------schnapp------------------------------

Can I safely force removing it with "dpkg -r --force kdebase"?  Or can
it eventually destroy the package-database in any way?

Many thanks, a wonderful Xmas to all of you and a happy new year! 
(Lets see if Kubrick was right.)

Ciao!
juh

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