Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.10 Severity: minor Hi,
I don't know whether it is real dpkg bug or not, but that's something I have found in php5 piuparts testing. Both php5-common and php5-cli (and other SAPIs) "owns" /etc/php5 (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list), now after dpkg --remove php5-cli dpkg --remove php5-common dpkg --purge php5-common dpkg --purge php5-cli the /etc/php5 is left in place because it was removed from /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-cli.list (I guess on basis that another package - the php5-common still "owns" the directory). The php5-cli.list files looks like (after dpkg --remove php5-cli): # cat php5-cli.list /etc/php5/cli I guess this is something not a php5 specific and could happen in more packages which put more config files into subsubdirectories in /etc/. I think the correct behaviour of dpkg should be to leave all directories leading to all left conffiles after removing but not purging, so after issuing: dpkg --remove php5-cli the php5-cli.list file should contain # cat php5-cli.list /. /etc /etc/php5 /etc/php5/cli instead of /etc/php5/cli I have tested that and edited the php5-cli.list to include all directories up-to-the-root and it works as it should. In other words I don't think there's a piuparts bug in src:php5 (however I am probably willing to create workaround and just do "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /etc/php5" in postrm script purge target for all php5 SAPIs). I have checked stable and unstable distributions and both have same behaviour. O. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.10.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
