specter:~# aptitude reinstall dtc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
apt apt-utils bind9-host dnsutils dselect exim4 exim4-base
exim4-daemon-light gcc-4.1-base libblkid1 libgnutls13 libsasl2-2
linux-image-2.6-686 nfs-common openssh-client openssh-server
policycoreutils
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
dtc
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up dtc (0.25.3-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dtc.postinst: line 8: /usr/share/dtc/admin/install/debian_config: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dtc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dtc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up dtc (0.25.3-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dtc.postinst: line 8: /usr/share/dtc/admin/install/debian_config: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dtc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dtc