[cl-debian] Bug#337365: sbcl: problem in pre-rm script prevents removal

[Bryan Donlan]

Package: sbcl
Version: 1:0.9.6.0-7
Severity: important

With the new version of sbcl in sid, it is impossible to remove with
dpkg --force-all --remove sbcl:

$ sudo dpkg --force-all --remove sbcl
(Reading database ... 268684 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sbcl ...
update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/sbcl does not exist; nothing
to do! 
update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors 
dpkg: error processing sbcl (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  sbcl

Attempting to dpkg-reconfigure sbcl gives:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sbcl
update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/sbcl does not exist; nothing
to do!
update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors

and does not correct the removal problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sbcl depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

Versions of packages sbcl recommends:
ii  binfmt-support                1.2.7      Support for extra binary formats

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