On 29-Sep-2013, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> 
> wrote:
> > That's why I used ‘rmdir’; if the directory is not empty, that means
> > the directory was not emptied by the package previous version removal
> > (or there are extra files there which aren't owned by the package).
> > Doesn't that mean the upgrade should fail?
> 
> I'm not sure, but if that works for you, it should be fine.

I have committed a new revision which removes the platform-dependent
directory in preinst, allowing the new release to create it as a symlink to
the platform-independent location.

Please try this change and see whether it addresses the problem you've
reported.

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Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>

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