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shall I file a bug for package trousers on Sid?



Hi y'all:

I had the package "trousers" installed on an old machine where there is no TPM 
hardware. So the  package makes no sense on that machine. I wanted to 
deinstall.

Funny:
Deinstalation wants to stop the tscd daemon. Demon does not run because driver 
is not installed. Logically invoke-rc.d comes back with an error, saying that 
daemon is not running.
Well, that's what we want, right?
But install script stops because of an error - not checking the kind of error. 
Not realizing that the error counzts as a success because we DO WASNT that the 
daemon does not run.
Deinstallation fails with error instead of going on.

Workaround:
svae /usr/sbin/invoke-rd.d to invoke-rc.d.org
delete all contents of invoke-rc.d and just leave "exit 0".

run dpkg -P trousers again.
trousers is deinstalled.

copy back /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.org onto /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d

All's well that ends well but is this not a bug?
Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?

All the best
Eike


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