Debian Bug report logs - #12135
dpkg: old /usr/doc/copyright/*

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Herbert Thielen <Herbert.Thielen@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg: old /usr/doc/copyright/*

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:10:15 +0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

I just found an old file /usr/doc/copyright/nvi, probably from my last
installed nvi version sometime before November 1996, that was never
removed.

Would be nice if nvi.postinst would check for this file and remove it.

There are old copyright files from other packages too (for me: acs,
beav, elvis, gopher-client, joe, ntgclass, python), but I'm too lazy to
write this bug report for every package.

Perhaps dpkg's postinst could check for old files in /usr/doc/copyright
which don't belong to any package anymore and delete them all. This
would be a better solution than fix all the packages as often these
packages won't be installed anymore, but dpkg surely will.

Regards
	Herbert.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux ion 2.0.30 #9 Tue Jul 15 19:16:17 MEST 1997 i586 unknown

Message #12 received at 12135@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wi.leidenuniv.nl>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, 12135@bugs.debian.org

Subject: not a bug

Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:43:38 +0200

severity 12135 fixed
thanks

This is not a bug in dpkg, but a bug in a package (nvi in this case).
I don't feel it is the responsibility of dpkg to fix bugs in other
packages, so I'm setting this bug to fixed so iwj can close it.

Wichert.

Message #19 received at 12135@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 12135@bugs.debian.org, 12135-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: /usr/doc/copyright/nvi

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:30:17 +0100 (BST)

> I just found an old file /usr/doc/copyright/nvi, probably from my last
> installed nvi version sometime before November 1996, that was never
> removed.

Do you mean that nvi was never removed, or that it was and the
copyright/nvi file wasn't ?  The latter would be (almost certainly) a
bug in dpkg, but I can't see how it could have come about.

Do you have any other information ?  Did dpkg or /var/lib/dpkg suffer
any kind of other bizarre problems at any point between where nvi was
installed and removed ?

Ian.

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