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Re: dpkg --purge leaves empty directory.



On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 04:29:30PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> That's a longstanding bug with dpkg... nothing to do with the
> correctness of your packaging.  Basically (as I understand it), dpkg
> first refuses to remove the directory because it isn't empty (as you've
> seen).  Once it gets past the point of removing the conffiles, it's
> `forgotten' about the directory, and so leaves it behind.

That should read "was a longstanding...". This is fixed now in 1.4.1.15.

Ben


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