Re: removing bogus directories in my package
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid
> directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo
> in debian/rules (shame on me)
>
> i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the
> existing directories. i could think of
>
> - just leavin them there
> - removing them (if they are empty) in the postinst of the new version
If it was created in an earlier .deb, just remove them from your current
.deb. dpkg will handle the rest once no installed packages own them any
more.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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