Bug#591683: linux-2.6: /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname not removed on purge

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:51:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> merge 590607 591683
> thanks
> 
> On 2010-08-04 20:43 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I recently installed the 2.6.35-rc6 packages, and purged 2.6.34 and
> > 2.6.35-rc5.  In doing so, I got a dpkg error message about the inability
> > to remove the non-empty directory /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ .  I
> > checked, and both of these directories contain "modules.devname" files,
> > which apparently got generated and not removed.
> 
> I beat you by eight days. ;-)

Missed the duplicate due to reportbug timing out fetching the long bug
list for linux-2.6.

(But I beat you to merging by 3 minutes. ;) )

Thanks for reporting the original.

- Josh Triplett