peercast-servent can not be uninstalled

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen]

Binary package hint: peercast-servent

peercast-servent was installed as a dependency of the desktop program 'geekast'
Uninstalling geekast fails because of errors relating to 'peercast-servent'.

I've removed this package, because it didn't seem to function anyway. But it might be due to port settings, so I didn't fill a bug about that. However, I should be able to _remove_ the package.

Specific output:

Removing peercast-servent ...
Stopping Peercast peer to peer broadcasting: invoke-rc.d: initscript peercast-servent, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing peercast-servent (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 peercast-servent
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

I've just found that I had to install libpeercast0 to fix my database.

Then I did a:
  sudo /etc/init.d/peercast-servant start

And then I was able to succesfully remove peercast-servent (and libpeercast0)
So when the server isn't running you can't remove it.

I guess it crashed or did not launch succesfully when I installed it. Which also explains why geekast wasn't working.

I'll experiment a bit more.
But being unable to stop a deamon (because it isn't running) is no reason to not uninstall it. So the bug is still valid though.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Is this bug still valid? Or has peercast been upgraded?