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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-01-16 18:01 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.8.10-4
> Severity: minor
>
> Preparing to unpack .../04-aptitude_0.8.10-4_amd64.deb ...
> 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.

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.

Cheers,
       Sven