[SOLVED] Multiple dpkg warning (non-empty directories) during upgrade to wheezy

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:27:57 +0200 (IST)
> Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for helping me out on this, too.
> > Using your advice I was able to further clean-up.
> >
> > I was left with two puzzling cases in which an orphan directory
> > contains dpkg'ed files.
> >
> > 1. /etc/openoffice
> >
> > # dpkg -S /etc/openoffice
> > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/openoffice
> > # for f in /etc/openoffice/*; do dpkg -S $f; done
> > openoffice.org-common: /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf
> > openoffice.org-common: /etc/openoffice/soffice.sh
> > openoffice.org-common: /etc/openoffice/sofficerc
> >
> > (There was an orphan file /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst.old, which I
> > removed.)
>
> aptitude search '~o'
>
> will show you all packages that were in squeeze, but are removed from
> Debian repository in wheezy. Everything in that list can be removed
> more or less safely.
> Given that openoffice was replaced with libreoffice in wheezy that's
> probably the case.

I did clean up all the obsolete packages (except for one).
openoffice.org-common was marked as deleted, but not purged.
I should have thought about this myself.  Sorry.

> > 2. /etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour
> >
> > # ddir=/etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour
> > # dpkg -S $ddir; for f in $ddir/*; do dpkg -S $f; done; unset f
> > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour
> > texlive-latex-extra: /etc/texmf/tex/latex/contour/contour.cfg
> >
> > Questions:
> > A. Is this an acceptable state?
> > B. Is this a bug?
>
> Maybe. I'm not that familiar with LaTeX.
> Still, if file belongs to the package, and directory in which the file
> resides is not, that's probably ok.

I deem this is a low-priority issue, if a problem at all.

Thanks for the help!
Itay


> Reco