tags 787288 + wontfix thanks > Apparently, open-vm-tools once contained the file > /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop but no longer in the current version. > > However, that config file isn't cleaned up properly using the correct > dh helper functions. > Please do that with one of the upcoming next versions.
No, it moved to a different package. I'm not going to invest time to remove this single old file for those few cases where the desktop package is not installed. > Worse, while the package contained: > /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop > it didn't contain > /etc/xdg/autostart That doesn't work. If a packaga contains a file it will contain the directory with the file. > which has however been dropped from some other packages, > so dpkg fails to remove that dir on upgrade to jessie: > Unpacking open-vm-tools (2:9.4.6-1770165-8) over > (2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2) ...^M > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/xdg/autostart': Directory > not empty^M You failed to understand this error message. > So in addition, please check whether that dir still belongs to some > other package and if not, remove it if empty. > Otherwise that cruft would live on forever on all legacy systems. send patches then. > Further, please consider using piuparts in the future to avoid > such issues. piuparts did not catch this problem. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
