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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/taler-merchant.postrm')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/taler-merchant.postrm | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/taler-merchant.postrm b/debian/taler-merchant.postrm index bf628b36..a9a7cc05 100644 --- a/debian/taler-merchant.postrm +++ b/debian/taler-merchant.postrm @@ -13,4 +13,15 @@ fi #DEBHELPER# +# When purging this package after the selections in the preinst have been made, +# the debconf database is left in an inconsistent state and the package cannot +# be installed again. This happens because dbconf-common will create a +# template for these questions with a shared owner. Purging will only delete +# one of the two templates, leading to a DB state where debconf-set-selections +# fails. We work around this by manually fixing up the debconf database. +# https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487300 +if [ -x /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl ]; then + /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl +fi + exit 0 |