[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#540303: Bug#540303: lots of files left in /emul/ after removing ia32-libs

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi Goswin.

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 03:08 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> And have you asked dpkg to what package they belong (by path without
> /emul/ia32-linux)? I see stuff from libc6-i386, fakeroot, lib32gcc1,
> ... in there.
I will try this tomorrow (are you still awake? already awake? or just
not in Germany? ;) ),... but shouldn't dpkg -S /emul/ already list all
files below /emul/, that are known to dpkg?

I made a short test with dpkg -S /emul/ia32-libs/usr/lib/libutil.a
There's a file with this name in libc6-dev and libc6-dev-i386,.. but
both not below /emul



> Are the links gone?
> 
> ls -lhd /lib32 /usr/lib32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 2009-07-29 22:16 /lib32
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K 2009-08-07 02:16 /usr/lib32

Seems so ;)



> Did you upgrade to one of the buggy libc6-i386 versions a while back?
Not sure which ones you mean.... but that's not unlikely,... as I'm
usually upgrading every day (sid).

> That would explain cruft being left behind.
Ah?! Isn't it guaranteed,.. that any files from a package are deleted
when it's removed/purged or upgraded and the file was dropped in the
newer version (perhaps apart from config files)???
So why can this happen?


Thanks so far & gn8,
Chris :)
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