Bug#50360: /etc/dpkg not removed

[Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@idiomtech.com>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.19
Severity: normal

When upgrading from dpkg 1.4.1.1 to dpkg 1.4.1.19:

dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file '/tec/dpkg': Directory not empty

The file there was:

%ls -l /etc/dpkg/
total 1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          462 Jan 31  1999 shlibs.default

Andrew

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux nolfolan 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 16:19:56 EDT 1999 i686

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.1.2-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses4                   4.2-3.4    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10                 1:2.95.2-3 The GNU stdc++ library