Bug#50360: etc/dpkg not removed

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

close 50360

thanks

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:12:15PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> 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

This is not a bug. That is a conffile, and it wont be deleted unless you
purge the package. This is the behavior for all packages.

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