Re: Remaining .dhelp files prevent directory removing on purge
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:04:34PM +0100, Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:13:01AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/usr/share/doc/gri-html-doc/html':
> > > > Directory not empty
> > > >
> > > > That directory contains the old .dhelp file, which I didn't create; I
> > > > use a doc-base file.
> > [...]
> > > For this reason with doc-html-w3 I added a
> > > find /usr/share/doc/doc-html-w3 -name .dhelp -exec rm -f {} \;
> > > in prerm. This works for me.
> >
> > Hmm... how about a wishlist bug against debhelper, to add that to the std.
> > #debhelper# section when dh_installdocs detects we might need it?
>
> How about a bug against dhelp to not leave its droppings around...
I think someone already tried that :-/
Daniel
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