Comment 3 for bug 1214403

A workaround for removal would be great, if anyone has one. ;)

$ sudo apt-get purge squid-prefetch 1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  squid-prefetch*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
After this operation, 54.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 352754 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing squid-prefetch ...
Stopping prefetch daemon for squid: invoke-rc.d: initscript squid-prefetch, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing squid-prefetch (--purge):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting prefetch daemon for squid: squid-prefetch.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 squid-prefetch
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)