firestarter won't uninstall

[Derek Broughton]

Alvin Thompson wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 10:36 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> For a workaround, just delete /var/lib/dpkg/info/firestarter.postrm.  It
>> won't clean up properly, but it _will_ uninstall.
> 
> that did the trick. thanks!
> 
> interestingly, i made a copy of the script and ran it after the
> uninstall with the needed 'purge' option, and it ran without problems. i
> wonder what caused Apt to barf on it?

Odds are it really ran just fine from dpkg, then, but exited with a non-zero
return code.  Obviously, that didn't matter to you, but dpkg won't accept
it.
-- 
derek