Bug#492450: dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting (...) not allowed

Nelson A. de Oliveira naoliv at debian.org
Sun Aug 10 02:36:49 UTC 2008


Hi!

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:49 PM, James Vega <jamessan at debian.org> wrote:
> Make sure there are no /usr/share/vim/vim71 or /usr/share/vim/vim72*
> directories remaining.

I won't do this now because I think that the problem is there.
Without any vim* packages installed, I still have this:

$ ls -l /usr/share/vim/vim71/doc
total 276
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8010 Mai  4 16:39 help.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268893 Mai  4 16:39 tags

They are supposed to be from some vim* package, right? But they aren't
(at least on my system).
This machine runs Debian sid, updated everyday, since more or less 2 years ago.
(The modify date says they are from 2008-05-04, if this can helps)

Can't they belong to some version of vim* (where this version is from
now to until 2 years ago), but while upgrading to a newer version
something happened and they didn't get
removed/upgraded/updated/something else?
Maybe some corner case that wasn't handled.

I am taking as example the packages that create a file but then forget
to remove it (we have/had a lot of examples of this, detected by
piuparts, for example).

Well, just things that I was thinking :-)

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson





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