diff -u slack-0.15.2/debian/prerm slack-0.15.2/debian/prerm
--- slack-0.15.2/debian/prerm
+++ slack-0.15.2/debian/prerm
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# $Id: prerm,v 1.1 2004/10/23 01:21:29 alan Exp $
-# post remove script for the Debian GNU/Linux slack package
 
 set -e
 
 if [ "$1" = "purge" -o "$1" = "remove" ]; then
+	unset CACHE
+	unset STAGE
         . /etc/slack.conf
         # purge the cache
-        rm -rf "$CACHE"/*
+	if [ -n "$CACHE" ]; then
+        	rm -rf "$CACHE"/*
+	fi
         # remove the stage
-        rm -rf "$STAGE"
+	if [ -n "$STAGE" ]; then
+        	rm -rf "$STAGE"
+	fi
 fi
 
 #DEBHELPER#
diff -u slack-0.15.2/debian/control slack-0.15.2/debian/control
--- slack-0.15.2/debian/control
+++ slack-0.15.2/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5)
-Standards-Version: 3.7.3
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 
 Package: slack
 Architecture: all
diff -u slack-0.15.2/debian/changelog slack-0.15.2/debian/changelog
--- slack-0.15.2/debian/changelog
+++ slack-0.15.2/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+slack (0.15.2-3) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * debian/prerm: handle an empty /etc/slack.conf in a less destructive manner
+  * debian/control: bumped Standards-Version (no changes)
+
+ -- Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>  Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:26:51 -0700
+
 slack (0.15.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * debian/watch: updated for new upstream location