Package: dpkg X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Version: 1.23.7 Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainers, I was trying to remove a 3rd party package with apt and it deleted the /opt folder as well. I have identified that it's due to this package incorrectly identified /opt as part of its file tree, so dpkg removed /opt as well, seeing it has no other folders/files in it. Indeed this remove operation didn't cause any data loss, however this also prevents any further 3rd party packages from being installed to /opt as well. Now, of course the main responsibility lies on sloppy packaging practice of the 3rd party package. But to make sure such packages won't cause problem for the OS users, would it make sense for add safeguards that make dpkg ignore such remove requests when removing these folders might cause system usability problems? (Like /usr/lib/modules and /usr/sbin ) Note that though the following information said I have dpkg 1.22.22 installed, conflicting the information in header, I have manually verified on dpkg 1.23.7. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6 ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u2 ii liblzma5 5.8.1-1 ii libmd0 1.1.0-2+b1 ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1 ii libzstd1 1.5.7+dfsg-1 ii tar 1.35+dfsg-3.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 3.0.3 pn debsig-verify <none> -- no debconf information
