Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 03:19:54 -0500
From: ioannis@flinet.com
Message-Id: <199703290819.DAA01318@ohiox.haw.org>
To: ioannis@flinet.com, submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject:  dpkg does not remove empty dirs

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8


dpkg sometimes fails to remove empty directories. 

Few months ago, in a cfengin bug report, I documented a similar behavior
with a slightly older dpkg vervion ( the one released with Debian 1.2 )
At that time, the cfengine maintainer explained that this is a dpkg bug which 
was fixed long ago.


This is the output I encountered today:


% dpkg --purge mirror
(Reading database ... 16221 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mirror ...
dpkg - warning: while removing mirror, directory `/etc/mirror' not empty so not
removed.
Purging configuration files for mirror ...
% ls -la /etc/mirror/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Mar 29 02:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  34 root     root         3072 Mar 29 02:24 ..
%

% dpkg -i mirror_2.8-9.deb
(Reading database ... 16221 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mirror 2.8-9 (using mirror_2.8-9.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mirror ...
Setting up mirror (2.8-9) ...
% dpkg --purge mirror
(Reading database ... 16221 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mirror ...
dpkg - warning: while removing mirror, directory `/etc/mirror/mm' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing mirror, directory `/etc/mirror/packages' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing mirror, directory `/etc/mirror' not empty so not
removed.
Purging configuration files for mirror ...


-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux ohiox 2.0.27 #2 Tue Jan 21 18:16:26 EST 1997 i486

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.20-1
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1