Bug#945501: python-statsmodels-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/python-statsmodels-doc/examples

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

Control: tags -1 pending

This happened when python-statsmodels was removed in 0.10.1-1, and the 
documentation was hence moved from /usr/share/doc/python-statsmodels to 
/usr/share/doc/python-statsmodels-doc.  0.10.2-1 (in salsa) includes 
your suggested fix.

0.9.0-5 -> 0.10.2-1 works, but 0.9.0-5 -> 0.10.1-5 -> 0.10.2-1 leaves 
behind a /usr/share/doc/python-statsmodels/{html,examples}, with 
contents that look like 0.10.1's 
/usr/share/doc/python-statsmodels-doc/{html,examples}, and no owner 
known to dpkg.

Should the package attempt to clean this up (and if so is there a better 
method than unconditionally deleting those directories), or is 
permanently leaving this behind (to become more and more obsolete, and 
potentially be read by users looking for the current documentation) the 
best that can be safely done?

(And is it a bug that piuparts.debian.org says it last tested 
statsmodels 0.9.0-6, and doesn't seem to know it should be testing the 
newer version?)