Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, looking for advice. If one wants to deprecate a conffile locate in an otherwise empty directory (let's say /etc/foo/bar), the following happens at new package install time: - before files unpacking, new-preinst is called; from dpkg-maintscript-helper manual, at this stage the conffile is renamed to bar.dpkg-remove (assuming not changed by user) - new package files are unpacked; at this point, the new package doesn't own the conffile anymore, so dpkg doesn't have any tracked file under /etc/foo, so it tries to remove the directory; however this fails due to the /etc/foo/bar.dpkg-remove - the new package is configured, and the postinst call to dpkg-maintscript-helper now remove /etc/foo/bar.dpkg-remove, but leaves /etc/foo as an unowned, dangling directory At least, this is my understanding from reading policy and from piuparts output. I can workaround it by manually removing the directory (if empty), but seems somewhat out-of-place. Thoughts? thanks, iustin
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