Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> ]] Nikolaus Rath 
>
>> How do I check if a directory belongs to a package?
>
> dpkg -S ?

I guess you shouldn't have used "belongs" but "owns" here. For example,
for /usr/share/dict dpkg -S lists wamerican, base-files and
dictionaries-common. How do I find out which of these owns this
directory and may rm -rf it?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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