Bug#454060: gnome-panel-data: upgrade failed because of missing dirs

[Salvador Fandino]

Package: gnome-panel-data
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: normal


upgrading gnome-panel-data fails as follows:

vespa:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  aptitude glade glade-gnome hpijs openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-gb
  openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-es openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-writer pcsx python-uno rhythmbox x11vnc xserver-xorg-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
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After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
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Setting up gnome-panel-data (2.20.2-1) ...
rmdir: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-panel-data (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-panel:
 gnome-panel depends on gnome-panel-data (<< 2.21); however:
  Package gnome-panel-data is not configured yet.
 gnome-panel depends on gnome-panel-data (>= 2.20); however:
  Package gnome-panel-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-panel (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-panel-data
 gnome-panel
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


creating directories "/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders" and "/var/lib/gnome" solved the problem

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel-data depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.20.1-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  scrollkeeper                  0.3.14-15  A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-panel-data recommends:
ii  gnome-panel                   2.20.2-1   launcher and docking facility for 

-- no debconf information