[Gllug] Debian package refusing to go

[Jim Bailey]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:54:17AM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> I installed the cyrus mailserver the other day to try it out and now I'm
> having problems getting rid of it.
> This is what I get from dselect:
> 
> ------
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   cyrus21-common* cyrus21-imapd* 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 5485kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> (Reading database ... 57639 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing cyrus21-imapd ...
> Purging configuration files for cyrus21-imapd ...
> Removing cyrus21-common ...
> Purging configuration files for cyrus21-common ...
> No override present.
> No override present.
> Do you want me to remove the Cyrus mail and news spool, and the users
> sieve scripts (y/n) [n] ? y
> No override present.
> No override present.
> No override present.
> No override present.
> No override present.
> -------
> 
> Then it just hangs until I do Ctrl-C.
> Any ideas on how I resolve this? 
> Is it something I'm doing wrong or a bug in the package script?
>
I expect to get well and truly slapped by my elders and betters for
this but I had a similar problem some time back on a box.  for some
reason Debain package management has problems removing some old config
files the binaries seem to go but not the /etc.  I go in there and just
#rm by hand.  this is probably a bad thing to do but it has worked for me
in the past.

Is this a bad way to treat Debian or not?

Peace Jim

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