Re: Update errors

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 7/8/20 10:45 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2020-07-08 10:20 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> > Apt flagged a couple of errors during this morning upate.
>
> Warnings, not errors, and they are coming from dpkg.
>
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
> > '/usr/share/fonts/woff/font-awesome': Directory not empty dpkg:
> > warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/woff':
> > Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
> > '/usr/share/fonts/svg/font-awesome': Directory not empty dpkg:
> > warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/svg':
> > Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
> > '/usr/share/fonts/eot/font-awesome': Directory not empty dpkg:
> > warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/eot':
> > Directory not empty
> >
> > Should I go in an remove these directories/files...or just leave it alone ?
>
> I have deleted the spurious .uuid files and their parent directories as
> they are cruft, but leaving them in place would not cause harm either.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897040
>
> Cheers,
>         Sven

Seems this bug has been around for quite a while.

Thanks
--
Frank McCormick