Hello, I have a bug (#764235) in which after I remove all conffiles in /etc/debtags with dpkg-maintscripthelper, the /etc/debtags directory itself is left around. This is what happens: # dpkg -i debtags_1.12.2_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 370467 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack ../debtags_1.12.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking debtags (1.12.2) over (1.11) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/debtags/sources.list.d': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/debtags': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/apt.conf.d': Directory not empty Setting up debtags (1.12.2) ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/debtags/sources.list.d/source-example ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/debtags/sources.list ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ... So, dpkg-maintscripthelper seems to do "Removing obsolete conffile" after dpkg tries to delete old directories, so dpkg fails. I'd be surprised if I were the first to encounter this problem: what is the appropriate and clean way to get rid of *all* conffiles for a package, including the directory that contains them? Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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