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

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

reassign 790040 dpkg
retitle 790040 dpkg-maintscript blocks directories from being removed
thanks

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > However, during upgrade these directories were not correctly cleaned up:
> > Unpacking tex-common (6.01) over (5.03) ...
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/texmf/hyphen.d': Directory not empty
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/texmf/fmt.d': Directory not empty
> > even though they're empty afterwards.
> 
> Isn't that a bug in dpkg-maintscript-helper? We are removing all the
> conffiles appearing in these directories, and are not shipping the
> dir anymore, too.
> 
> 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.

Reassigning to dpkg.

Thanks

Norbert

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