[breezy] mozilla-firefox fails to remove when installing firefox

[John Butera]

firefox replaces mozilla-firefox so mozilla-firefox must be removed. When
trying to remove mozilla-firefox, dpkg fails. To fix this, I did `sudo rm -rf
/var/lib/mozilla-firefox` but I'm not sure why that allowed it to be removed.

here is the error that dpkg returned when trying to remove mozilla-firefox
(before rm'ing /var/lib/mozilla-firefox)....

Removing mozilla-firefox ...
find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option argument
-type, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified before it
as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other
arguments.

find: /var/lib/mozilla-firefox/: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mozilla-firefox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Kai F. Lahmann (kl)]

belive it or not, this bug sits in findutils, which report nonsence. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313079

[David Farning (dfarning)]

Tested under breezy
firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
i686

Is this still a problem the upstream bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313079 has been closed. This
bug was in 4.1.20 breezy now has findutils at 4.2.22.

-dtf

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

According to comments, this is fixed. Closing.