Your message dated Sat, 8 Nov 2014 01:37:04 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#768512: base-files: Why is postinst script trying to
remove /mnt?
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regarding base-files: Why is postinst script trying to remove /mnt?
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: base-files
Version: 7.10
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
While upgrading from 7.6 to 7.10, dpkg informs me
that it tries to remove /mnt:
Unpacking base-files (7.10) over (7.6) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/mnt': Directory not empty
Why would base-files try to do that? I presume is related
to some changes over the logic which /mnt is (re)created when
installing base-files. I know I won't lose anything of importance
since dpkg refuses to delete the directory, but the warning shouldn't
be triggered.
Cheers,
Braiam
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:25:47PM -0400, Braiam Peguero wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 7.10
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> While upgrading from 7.6 to 7.10, dpkg informs me
> that it tries to remove /mnt:
>
> Unpacking base-files (7.10) over (7.6) ...
> dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/mnt': Directory not empty
>
> Why would base-files try to do that? I presume is related
> to some changes over the logic which /mnt is (re)created when
> installing base-files. I know I won't lose anything of importance
> since dpkg refuses to delete the directory, but the warning shouldn't
> be triggered.
You will find the answer by looking at the changelog.
The change was made in base-files_7.7 to fix this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/763405
In either case, base-files can't do anything at all to prevent such
message from being shown, because, as you have rightly guessed, it's
dpkg who show the message.
Thanks.
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