Package: sbcl Version: 1:0.9.6.0-7 Severity: important With the new version of sbcl in sid, it is impossible to remove with dpkg --force-all --remove sbcl: $ sudo dpkg --force-all --remove sbcl (Reading database ... 268684 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sbcl ... update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/sbcl does not exist; nothing to do! update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors dpkg: error processing sbcl (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: sbcl Attempting to dpkg-reconfigure sbcl gives: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sbcl update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/sbcl does not exist; nothing to do! update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors and does not correct the removal problems. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sbcl depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an Versions of packages sbcl recommends: ii binfmt-support 1.2.7 Support for extra binary formats -- no debconf information