Re: mistakes in deb of mozilla-ctxextensions?

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Chris Metzler_, on 05/08/04 14:35,typed:
> On Fri, 07 May 2004 21:53:21 -0400
> "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to remove mozilla-ctxextensions. I have tried to do this 
> > with dselect, apt-get and with dpkg, but I am getting the following
> > error:# dpkg -P mozilla-ctxextensions
> > (Reading database ... 152733 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Removing mozilla-ctxextensions ...
> > Updating mozilla chrome registry...done.
> > Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry...done.
> > Purging configuration files for mozilla-ctxextensions ...
> > postrm called with unknown argument `purge'
> > dpkg: error processing mozilla-ctxextensions (--purge):
> >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  mozilla-ctxextensions
> >
> >
> > Is something wrong with the package?
>
>
> You didn't say what version you were trying to install.
> However, I went to http://packages.debian.org/ , looked up the package
> "mozilla-ctxextensions", and clicked on the link to give me its buglist.
> There I saw that a bug has been filed about this, and that it should be
> fixed at this point.  If you're trying to install 3.1.2004033001-2 --
> the version which should be fixed, according to the bug report I found
> by doing the above --  and you're getting this problem. you might
> want to re-open the bug.
>
> -c

I was using 3.1.2004033001-1. The "-2" version that I just installed 
doesn't have that problem. Thanks a ton. (it was a mistake on my part 
for not specifying the version originally, I was under the belief that I 
was installing the most recent using dselect at that time.)

regards,
->HS
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