Bug#198522: gnome-panel-data: abandoned directories on purge

[Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>]

Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:53:51PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> 
>> Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net> writes:
>> >
>> >     dpkg - warning: while removing gnome-panel-data, directory
>> > +`/etc/gnome/panel-config/panel.d/default' not empty so not removed.
>> 
>> Should be removed by dpkg.
>
> I'm not an expert on this, but when I've seen this problem before,
> the packager usually had to fix it.  If there was a file in the
> directory, and your .postinst removed it (I infer this is what
> happened--since I don't have the package installed, I can't check),
> isn't it your responsibility to remove the directory as well?

No, dpkg should remove these directories. tell me why dpkg can remove
/usr/share/doc/gnome-panel-data and can't remove these directories in
/etc ?

I don't see a good reason.

Christian