Bug#809356: gnome-themes-standard-data: left over legacy files

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Christoph,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:35:33PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> During upgrade to -2:
> Unpacking gnome-themes-standard-data (3.18.0-2) over (3.18.0-1) ...
> dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/icons/default': Directory not empty
>
> That directory contains:
> ls -al /usr/share/icons/default
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  22 Jul 18  2008 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 326 Nov 26 18:03 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  32 Nov 14  2009 index.theme -> /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme
>
> which was hoever not created by myself, so I guess gnome-themes-standard-data would
> need to clean that up and then properly remove the dir.
>
> Could you please repeat that in one of the upcomming uploads so that users
> don't have stale files which never again get removed?

I think that's unavoidable. That directory contains a file created by
update-alternatives (which is called by postinst), thus dpkg doesn't know
about it. I think you can simply ignore this warning.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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