Comment 3 for bug 996450

I've tracked down the point where the post-installation fails.

It fails in the script /var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.config when line 16 "db_get snort/reverse_order" is run.

To workaorund this failure I have removed the following lines from script /var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.config:

        db_get snort/reverse_order
        if [ "x$RET" = "xyes" ]; then
        # Remove the -o option which was introduced by Debconf
        # (snort/reverse_order) in versions previous to 2.8.5.2-2
            DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS=`echo "$DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS" | sed -e 's/ -o$//'`
        fi

I believe this bug is related to the following change:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/snort/oneiric/revision/24

I hope this helps.