Hi,
sgml-base package creates files under /etc in its postinst script.
When you got that error, postinst script didn't ran.
diff -urN sgml-base-1.99.0.orig/debian/changelog
sgml-base-1.99.0+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- sgml-base-1.99.0.orig/debian/changelog 2009-07-12 23:51:43.000000000
+0900
+++ sgml-base-1.99.0+nmu1/debian/changelog 2010-04-12 16:00:40.817197425
+0900
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+sgml-base (1.99.0+nmu1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * fix remove failure if postinst have not run yet (Closes: #576445)
+
+ -- Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP) <henr...@debian.or.jp> Mon, 12 Apr 2010
16:00:38 +0900
+
sgml-base (1.99.0) experimental; urgency=low
* Makefile: Dropped build system. debian/rules and debhelper are enough.
diff -urN sgml-base-1.99.0.orig/debian/sgml-base.postrm
sgml-base-1.99.0+nmu1/debian/sgml-base.postrm
--- sgml-base-1.99.0.orig/debian/sgml-base.postrm 2008-09-02
21:14:41.000000000 +0900
+++ sgml-base-1.99.0+nmu1/debian/sgml-base.postrm 2010-04-12
15:58:50.849195103 +0900
@@ -15,16 +15,11 @@
rm -f /etc/sgml/catalog /etc/sgml/catalog.old
## ------------------------------------------------------------------
- ## remove /etc/sgml
- cd /etc
- rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty sgml
- cd - >/dev/null
-
- ## ------------------------------------------------------------------
- ## remove /var/lib/sgml-base
- cd /var/lib
- rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty sgml-base
- cd - >/dev/null
+ ## remove /etc/sgml and /var/lib/sgml-base
+ for dir in /etc/sgml /var/lib/sgml-base
+ if [ -d $dir ]; then
+ rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $dir
+ fi
fi
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