Comment 8 for bug 1312975

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :

When the old package’s prerm fails, dpkg goes back and runs the new package’s prerm instead, to allow us to escape exactly that kind of chicken-and-egg problem. We could, for example, have the new prerm create the cgroup-lite.service → /dev/null symlink if it isn’t already there.