Bug#338363: tetex-base: dpkg unable to delete old files

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

>> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/lib/texmf/dvips':
>> Directory not empty

f> Where's the bug?  Why should we delete generated files during an upgrade?

Well it looks bad to the user. Of all the hundreds of packages
upgrading, only yours produces those messages. And I bet one would see
them on package removal too!?


>> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/texmf/etex':
>> Directory not empty

f> Can you tell us what is in this directory?

hmm, that directory is now gone, as is /var/lib/texmf/dvips. Maybe at
the end of the upgrade it did get removed. Hmmm all I can find is
/etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg..postinst-bak. So the others got cleaned
up... but still: bad to scare users with those messages.

OK, did
# rm /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg..postinst-bak