scim 1.4.7-3ubuntu3 does not install

[Mike Basinger]

scim upgrade for Hardy Alpha 6 13-March-2008 fails.
dbasinge@mikebuntu:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up scim (1.4.7-3ubuntu3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/scim.postinst: 85: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "fi")
dpkg: error processing scim (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 scim
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Olexandr Zanichkovsky (ozanichkovsky)]

I confirm this on completely upgraded hardy amd64.

[ubuntel (fargo-wells)]

~$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 ext3 22G 3.1G 18G 15% /
varrun tmpfs 248M 100K 247M 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 248M 0 248M 0% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 248M 48K 247M 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 248M 12K 248M 1% /dev/shm
lrm tmpfs 248M 38M 210M 16% /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1 vfat 47M 124K 47M 1% /media/sda1
/dev/sda2 fuseblk 52G 22G 30G 42% /media/sda2
howard@mawi:~$ sudo apt-get clean
howard@mawi:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up scim (1.4.7-3ubuntu3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/scim.postinst: 85: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "fi")
dpkg: error processing scim (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scim-bridge-agent:
 scim-bridge-agent depends on scim | skim; however:
  Package scim is not configured yet.
  Package skim is not installed.
dpkg: error processing scim-bridge-agent (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scim-bridge-client-gtk:
 scim-bridge-client-gtk depends on scim-bridge-agent; however:
  Package scim-bridge-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing scim-bridge-client-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scim-modules-table:
 scim-modules-table depends on scim; however:
  Package scim is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing scim-modules-table (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scim-tables-additional:
 scim-tables-additional depends on scim-modules-table (>= 0.5.7-2ubuntu1); however:
  Package scim-modules-table is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing scim-tables-additional (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 scim
 scim-bridge-agent
 scim-bridge-client-gtk
 scim-modules-table
 scim-tables-additional
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

not sure if this makes any diff

~$ sudo aptitude reinstall scim scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-modules-table scim-tables-additional
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  scim scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-modules-table
  scim-tables-additional
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up scim (1.4.7-3ubuntu3) ...
/var/li...