Re: How to get dpkg to remove directories?
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:49:29AM -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
> Splitting the stuff from the cron.daily script to a separate script is
> not strictly necessary. If the script is small, couldn't it be left in
> the cron file with the following test to see whether the package is
> installed?
>
> test -d /usr/share/doc/foo || exit 0
>
> or
>
> test -f /usr/share/doc/foo/copyright || exit 0
>
> where "foo" is the package name. Every policy compliant package (even
> one containing only conffiles) has to have a copyright file, which is
> removed by "dpkg --remove".
A package which did that would not be policy compliant:
13.3. Additional documentation
Files in `/usr/share/doc' should not be referenced by any program, and
the system administrator should be able to delete them without causing
any programs to break.
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