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Re: the right way to uninstall /var/games



On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:30:44AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> I maintain a game which saves its high score in /var/games .
> It creates /var/games in its postinst to avoid dpkg -r
> "directory not removed because it is not empty" warning.

I don't think you should worry about that warning. Accept it as a bug in
dpkg, tell anybody who complains about it that it's a bug in dpkg, and
make your package behave in the simplest possible way.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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