raspi-config package cannot be removed

[ssamppa]

Removing raspi-config fails on raspbian 2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy image:
Please fix.
sudo dpkg --purge raspi-config
(Reading database ... 35768 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing raspi-config ...
Usage: /etc/init.d/raspi-config start
invoke-rc.d: initscript raspi-config, action "stop" failed.

dpkg: error processing raspi-config (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 3
update-rc.d: warning: default start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match raspi-config Default-Start values (S)
update-rc.d: warning: default stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match raspi-config Default-Stop values (none)
[....] Checking if shift key is held down:Error opening '/dev/input/event*': No such file or directory
[ ok Switching to ondemand scaling governor.
Errors were encountered while processing:
raspi-config

[lurch]

Sounds to me like this is more an issue with https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo than it is with https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config

But just out of curiosity, why do you want to remove raspi-config ?