On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum > and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. > when i purge the package, i get: > > balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sugarplum > (Reading database ... 69541 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing sugarplum ... > dpkg - warning: while removing sugarplum, directory `/etc/sugarplum' not > empty so not removed. > Purging configuration files for sugarplum ...
See bug #59343 and those merged with it. > and if i don't do anything about it, afterwards the /etc/sugarplum > directory remains. what's the best way to not leave cruft behind like > that? right now i have a little snippet of code that checks for an empty > sugarplum directory in a postrm purge, which works, but i'm not sure it's > how it ought to be done. This is the best that you can do right now. -- - mdz
