Bug#50360: marked as done (/etc/dpkg not removed)
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Subject: /etc/dpkg not removed
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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
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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
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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:39:18 +0100
From: Josip Rodin <jrodin@public.srce.hr>
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Subject: This bug report can be closed.
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Hi,
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:12:31 -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 01:46:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:12:15PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > 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.
>
> I thought that since the conffile is not in the new package, and I never
> modified it, it should be deleted by the upgrade. But what you say
> makes some sense. I apologize if this is intended behavior.
What Ben Collins said is true, so basically this bug can be closed (he
intended to do that, he told me on IRC just now), so I'm closing it now.
> It would be very nice if dpkg would suppress the warning when the only
> things in the directory are conffiles (and directories). I think this
> would make many more upgrades warning-free, which I hope is a goal.
Feel free to repeat this in another, wishlist, bug report, though :)
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