[Piuparts-devel] creating config files in directories owned by dependencies leaves directories after purge

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: foo
ships /etc/foo.d/

Package: bar
Depends: foo
postinst creates config file (not a conffile) /etc/foo.d/bar

install foo bar
remove bar
remove foo
purge bar
purge foo

leaves /etc/foo.d/ around

What is the correct solution for this problem?
Does policy say anything about this?
bar *may not* rmdir /etc/foo.d in its postrm purge
Should bar ship empty /etc/foo.d/, too? So dpkg could have the
possibility to remove this (if the respective dpkg bug gets fixed ...)


Andreas