Comment 13 for bug 58915

Same here. I have been running edgy for since late July. I tried to install scribus-ng which depends on python2.3 and the python2.3 package is broken, as above.

It can't be removed/purged even using dpkg. Here is what i get when trying to remove it.

$ sudo dpkg -P --force-all python2.3
(Reading database ... 185658 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python2.3 ...
Unlinking and removing bytecode for runtime python2.3...
pycentral: pycentral rtremove: installed runtime python2.3 not found
pycentral rtremove: installed runtime python2.3 not found
dpkg: error processing python2.3 (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.3