assistance with ubuntu-docs bug

[Jordan Mantha]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:01:48AM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>
>
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/353288
>
>> > For those users, dpkg doesn't seem to want to remove the directory
>> > because it isn't empty, and the package upgrade therefore fails.
>
>> You could always rm -rf ;-)
>
> Except using rmdir was meant to find exactly this kind of thing... :)  rm
> -rf would avoid the upgrade error, but cause inconsistencies between the
> filesystem and the dpkg database, and that's double-plus-ungood.

It was a very tongue-in-cheek comment.

>> > I think edubuntu-docs needs to be amended somehow, probably so that it
>> > also uses the symlink and ships those files in the directory
>> > /usr/share/ubuntu-docs/libs instead. But I'd appreciate some advice
>> > about the best way to deal with this bug.
>
>> It's entirely likely that edubuntu-docs could work without those files
>> as they were primarily for a doc we aren't shipping anymore, or have
>> them more local to the document (I think About Edubuntu is basically
>> the only thing we're shipping) if they are used. In any case, I'll
>> upload a fixed edubuntu-docs.
>
> Once this is uploaded, ubuntu-docs will also need to Conflict with the old
> version of edubuntu-docs.  (Not Breaks; we need to ensure that the package
> is actually removed from the filesystem.)

Right, good point.

-Jordan