firestarter won't uninstall

[Alvin Thompson]

if you try to completely remove Firestarter (including config files) you 
get the error below, and apt gets confused about what files are actually 
installed. is there any way to fix?


(Reading database ... 77250 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firestarter ...
Purging configuration files for firestarter ...
dpkg: error processing firestarter (--purge):
  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  firestarter

Failed to apply all changes! Scroll in the terminal buffer to see what 
went wrong.