Bug#369740: old transition leaves /usr/share/doc/vim full of stale files

[Joey Hess]

Package: vim
Version: 1:7.0-017+4
Severity: normal

I've checked 2 machines that track unstable and on both
/usr/share/doc/vim looks like this:

joey at kite:~doc/vim>ls -l /usr/share/doc/vim
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   778 Dec  7 15:59 NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1248 Dec  7 15:59 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1414 Nov 20  2005 README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Nov 20  2005 TODO.Debian
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49825 Dec  7 16:02 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5462 Oct 12  2005 copyright

Note timestamps, these files are from vim 1:6.4-004+1, not the current
version. If I remove and reinstall vim, these files are left behind and
dpkg complains:

joey at dragon:/var/log>sudo dpkg --purge vim
(Reading database ... 220390 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vim ...
Purging configuration files for vim ...
dpkg - warning: while removing vim, directory `/usr/share/doc/vim' not
empty so not removed.
joey at dragon:/var/log>ls -la /usr/share/doc/vim
total 124K
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4.0K Dec 19 17:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1891 root root  44K May 31 19:08 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  778 Dec  7 15:59 NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root root 1.3K Dec  7 15:59 README
-rw-r--r--    1 root root 1.4K Nov 20  2005 README.Debian
-rw-r--r--    1 root root    0 Nov 20  2005 TODO.Debian
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  49K Dec  7 16:02 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root root 5.4K Oct 12  2005 copyright

If I manually rm -rf the stale directory, and then reinstall vim, I get
a symlink:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 31 19:22 /usr/share/doc/vim -> vim-common/

Apparently the transition to this symlink has been botched; note that
dpkg does not really support replacing directories full of files with
symlinks..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-11    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgpmg1                     1.19.6-22   General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-2       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  vim-common                   1:7.0-017+4 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-runtime                  1:7.0-017+4 Vi IMproved - Runtime files

vim recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo
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