Debian Bug report logs - #665797
dpkg-maintscript-helper: rm_conffile prevents dpkg from removing empty directory

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: texlive-base upgrade leaves empty directories behind

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:39:56 +0200

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2011.20120322-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

During the upgrade from 2009-15, dpkg is complaining about:

Dépaquetage de la mise à jour de texlive-base ...
Remplacement de fichiers dans l'ancien paquet tex-common ...
dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont/misc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/texdoc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide

After all the packages have been confiured /etc/texmf/metafont and
/etc/texmf/texdoc are empty and not owned by any packages.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  dpkg                   1.16.2
ii  install-info           4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii  libpaper-utils         1.1.24+nmu1
ii  luatex                 0.70.1-2
ii  mime-support           3.52-1
ii  tex-common             3.5
ii  texlive-binaries       2011.20120322-1
ii  texlive-common         2011.20120322-1
ii  texlive-doc-base       2011.20120322-1
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii  lmodern  2.004.1-5

Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
pn  evince [postscript-viewer]       3.2.1-1+b1
pn  ghostscript [postscript-viewer]  9.05~dfsg-4
pn  perl-tk                          <none>
pn  xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer         <none>

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  dpkg                   1.16.2
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  9.20120322

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii  tex-common        3.5
ii  texlive-binaries  2011.20120322-1

-- debconf information excluded

Message #10 received at 665795@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>

To: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>, 665795@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#665795: texlive-base upgrade leaves empty directories behind

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:55:38 +0900

clone 665795 -1
reassign -1 dpkg
retitle -1 dpkg-maintscript-helper does not remove empty directories
thanks

On Mo, 26 Mär 2012, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> During the upgrade from 2009-15, dpkg is complaining about:
> 
> Dépaquetage de la mise à jour de texlive-base ...
> Remplacement de fichiers dans l'ancien paquet tex-common ...
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont/misc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/metafont » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
> dpkg : avertissement : impossible de supprimer l'ancien répertoire « /etc/texmf/texdoc » : Le dossier n'est pas vide
> 
> After all the packages have been confiured /etc/texmf/metafont and
> /etc/texmf/texdoc are empty and not owned by any packages.

I see, that is true, and there are more directories like that.

It comes from the fact that I assumed that using dpkg-maintscript-helper
will remove empty directories, too, which it doesn't.

I am cloning this bug and reassiǵn to dpkg so that this might get
implemented.

dpkg maintainers: After removing a conffile it might be useful to add
	rmdir --ignore-if-empty $(basename $file)
or whatever you are using.

For the TeX Live packages, this is a problem now, because I really
don't know how to autogenreate it. I will look into it.

Best wishes

Norbert
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Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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