Re: Remaining .dhelp files prevent directory removing on purge
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:58:01AM -0500, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 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...
>
> E.g. #101251. But in woodyland the only way to fix this will be
> a change to dh_installdocs.
Oh, you mean the new dhelp no longer needs .dhelp files, so dh_installdocs
no longer needs to create them?
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