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Bug#790040: tex-common: doesn't properly clean up legacy files



On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 01:09 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Isn't that a bug in dpkg-maintscript-helper?
mhh good question,.. I'm not an expert in that field...

>  We are removing all the
> conffiles appearing in these directories, and are not shipping the
> dir anymore, too.
... at least, until know, whenever I've seen such problem it was due to
packages either not cleaning up at all (with the dpkg-maintscript
-helper) or doing it wrong...


> The problem is with dpkg-maintscript-helper (I guess) which makes
> temporary files in these directories, and thus they are not removed.
> 
> I am not sure how I should deal with that.
Well in that case one should probably reassign this to dpkg?


> If you have a good suggestion why not post a patch?
Actually, I didn't knew that this can be kinda automated and thought it
would need to be basically run manually before uploading a package!?


Best wishes,
Chris.

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