[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#810058: Bug#810058: Gone anyway: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kbd': Directory not empty

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Dan Jacobson.

Thanks for your bug report.

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:29:31AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: kbd
> Version: 2.0.3-2
> 
> Preparing to unpack .../archives/kbd_2.0.3-2_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking kbd (2.0.3-2) over (2.0.3-1) ...
> dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/kbd': Directory not empty

I'm not sure how it would be possible to avoid this off the top of my
head, my will give it some more thought later when I find time. Possibly
this bug report might end up as wontfix though.

I currently see two possibilities:

- have the package continue to ship/create the /etc/kbd directory
  to avoid having dpkg try to remove it (and leave an empty useless
  directory on users systems!)

- invent my own policy-incompliant (RC-buggy) way of dealing with
  config file removal, which I'm obviously not going to even consider.

> 
> But then the user looks and doesn't find it.

Then I hope any worries about the warning message is calmed. :)

Thanks for providing the info that the directory was properly
removed/cleaned up though. It would have been useful to know the exact
content of your /etc/kbd before removal, but I guess it's too late for
that now... If you're able to easily reproduce the issue then please
provide this info.

> 
> So please delete it first before we see the warning.

Will think about it, but as mentioned you might just have to live with
the warning. If so I'll tag this wontfix (until possibly someone
provides an example on how to handle this in a good way which would
ofcourse make me reconsider).

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson