[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#803344: elpa-expand-region: removal script fails because it wants to remove the wrong directory

[Hilko Bengen]

Package: elpa-expand-region
Version: 0.10.0-6
Severity: grave

Dear maintainer,

while upgrading emacs24 from 24.5+1-2 to 24.5+1-3, I get the following
error which eventually leads to an upgrad failure:

,----
| [...]
| Remove elpa-expand-region for emacs24
| remove/emacs24-24.5+1: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs24
| dh-elpa: purging flavor specific files for emacs24
| find: `/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/elpa/emacs24-24.5+1': No such file or directory
| ERROR: remove script from elpa-expand-region package failed
| dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
| dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
| [...]
`----

(This looks a lot like #802963.)

The second prerm run eventually fails for another reason which looks
like a different bug in the dh-elpa template, but we can see that the
removal script
(usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/elpa-expand-region) wants to
remove the wrong directory.

Rebuilding elpa-expand-region with the current dh-elpa (0.0.15) and
installing the resulting package before upgrading emacs24 fixed this
particular issue because updated dh-elpa templates were used.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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