trying to uninstall/remove netapplet fails if netapplet daemon isn't running

[anagor]

Binary package hint: netapplet

I think that the bug is probably in the packaging remove scripts.
steps to reproduce:
1. install netapplet
2. stop the netapplet daemon:
    sudo /etc/init.d/netapplet stop
3. try to uninstall.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta or later?

[anagor (anagor)]

Unfortunately yes, below is the exact description of the error, on an updated latest 8.10 beta:

Removing netapplet ...
 * Stopping network interface daemon...
invoke-rc.d: initscript netapplet, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing netapplet (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting network interface daemon...
   ...done.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netapplet
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

As you can see, the script that tries to stop the daemon fails, because the daemon is already stopped.
Maybe this should give an warning instead of error allowing the removal script to continue.

[anagor (anagor)]

Fortunately because the removal scripts restarts the daemon, trying to remove the package again will succeed.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

confirmed on Karmic, marking as such