Trouble installing (and/or removing) gsfonts-x11

[Andreas Boman <bomana@bellsouth.net>]

Hi, 

I'm having problems getting gsfonts-x11 installed (using
unstable/sid -quite by accident, thought I was getting woody :).

It seems that whatever I do the problem just will not go
away. Below are some of the things I have tried, and the
errors I get. The 15 packages that are not upgraded on my
system seem to be held back by gsfonts-x11.

thanks for any help.
Andreas



# dpkg -C
The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during
installation.  They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages
that depend on them) to function properly:
 gsfonts-x11          Make Ghostscript fonts available to
X11.

# apt-get install -f gsfonts-x11
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, gsfonts-x11 is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/6990B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package gsfonts-x11.
(Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gsfonts-x11 0.12 (using .../gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gsfonts-x11 ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq gsfonts-x11
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gsfonts-x11 ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gsfonts-x11 (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gsfonts-x11