Bug#451459: update-manager RC bug: removing obsolete files: easy fix?

[Thibaut Paumard]

Hi,

It looks like this bug is the only reason why update-notifier and  
update-manager got removed from testing:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451459
The fix looks so obvious to me that I'm wondering whether I missed  
something.

It looks like an old version of update-manager, which never made it  
into a stable release, has left .pyc files behind. The fix seems to  
be to remove them in postinst.

It looks like we should simply remove completely these two directories:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/SoftwareProperties/
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/UpdateManager/

I have checked that those files belong to update-manager (but at  
another location, now), but I didn't find a way to make sure no other  
package writes in the same directories.

Do you see any catch? Perhaps safer to remove each individual file as  
listed in the bugreport, and then the directories if they get emptied?

Best regards, Thibaut.