[Bug 881806] Re: icecc does not remove cleanly

[Felix Geyer]

Thanks for providing the debdiff.
Patches in debian/patches/ should never change the package but only the upstream code.
See http://lintian.debian.org/tags/patch-modifying-debian-files.html

I took the liberty to apply the patch directly and have uploaded the
package to lucid-proposed (waiting for approval).

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Title:
  icecc does not remove cleanly

Status in NULL Project:
  Invalid
Status in “icecc” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “icecc” source package in Lucid:
  In Progress
Status in “icecc” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  icecc 0.9.4-2 in lucid does not remove cleanly here.  FWIW, I tried a
  simple "sudo aptitude install icecc && sudo aptitude purge icecc" in a
  precise virtualbox environment and that worked without a problem. So,
  it may be that either the latest release is not affected or some cruft
  needs to build up before this problem shows up upon purge.

  $ sudo aptitude purge icecc
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    icecc{p}
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
  Writing extended state information... Done
  (Reading database ... 264127 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing icecc ...
  Purging configuration files for icecc ...
  Deleting icecc user...
  Deleting icecc group...
  dpkg: error processing icecc (--purge):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 128
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   icecc
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states... Done

  Documentation for SRU:
  Maverick and beyond are not affected. The request is to backport the patch that the Debian maintainer applied to the postrm script for inclusion in lucid-updates.  sponsorship needs to wait for the the package currently in lucid-proposed to migrate over to -updates.

  LUCID TEST CASE: "sudo aptitude install icecc && sudo aptitude purge
  icecc" will fail.

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