Comment 5 for bug 22318

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:13:45 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc?= Minier <email address hidden>
To: Bastian Kleineidam <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#329759: libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0: prerm failure: gconftool-2: command not found

tags 329759 unreproducible
thanks

        Hi,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> on purging the package I get this error:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0.prerm: line 9: gconftool-2: =
command not found
>=20
> I see that gconftool-2 is in libgconf2-4, which is a dependency, howeve=
r
> on my system libgconf2-4 is already deleted, so now I have no chance
> to purge libgstreamer-gconf0.8.0.
>=20
> I suggest to ignore the gconftool-2 call if it does not exist.

 libgstreamer-gconf-0.8-0 Depends on libgconf2-4. The Debian policy
 says:

Depends
    This declares an absolute dependency. A package will not be
    configured unless all of the packages listed in its Depends field
    have been correctly configured.
    [...]
    The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or
    postrm scripts require the package to be present in order to run.

 prerm is not called during purge. I think your package is in state
 broken under whatever package manager your use. Please report the
 output of: dpkg -C

   Bye,

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Lo=EFc Minier <email address hidden>