[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887421: Bug#887421: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty

[Axel Beckert]

Control: retitle -1 aptitude-common: Missing Breaks/Replaces against aptitude for moving man pages around
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 + confirmed

Hi,

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2018-01-16 18:01 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > Unpacking aptitude (0.8.10-4) over (0.8.10-3) ...
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl': Directory not empty
> > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/fi/man8': Directory not empty
> > Preparing to unpack .../05-aptitude-common_0.8.10-4_all.deb ...
> 
> The files have been moved to the aptitude-common package, so if aptitude
> is unpacked before aptitude-common they temporarily disappear.  There is
> not much which can be done about that, other than turning aptitude's
> Depends on aptitude-common into a Pre-Depends which is rather 
> undesirable.

Correct.

> However, there is a more serious bug here: the Replaces relationship of
> aptitude-common on aptitude needs to be bumped to (<< 0.8.10-4).
> Otherwise there will be a file conflict if the new aptitude-common is
> unpacked before the new aptitude.

Also correct, at least in theory. We noticed this shortly after the
upload despite we never actually ran into that issue nor did anyone
report such issues.

We'll nevertheless add these restrictions with the next upload.

I've allowed myself to retitle this bug report towards that issue
since the original one is a non-issue.

I've set the severity only to important since this so far had no
real-life impact. Feel free to bump the severity to serious iff this
caused upgrade troubles for you.

		Regards, Axel
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