Debian bug report logs - #1027
dpkg --remove doesn't remove empty directory trees

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Subject: dpkg --remove doesn't remove empty directory trees
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PACKAGE:  dpkg
VERSION:  0.93.42
PACKAGE_REVISION:  0

On upgrading from image-1.2.1 to image-1.2.10, dpkg left
the following behind:

/lib/modules/1.2.1:
fs
misc
modules.dep
net
scsi

/lib/modules/1.2.1/fs:

/lib/modules/1.2.1/misc:

/lib/modules/1.2.1/net:

/lib/modules/1.2.1/scsi:

I understand /lib/modules/1.2.1 being left, because modules.dep
still exists, but shouldn't the empty subdirectories have
been deleted?

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)