Package: libplplot-dev Version: 5.13.0+dfsg-4 Followup-For: Bug #875911 Dear Maintainer,
It seems that this problem also exists in libplplot-dev package. Upgrading the libplplot-dev package from 5.10.0+dfsg2-0.4+b3 to 5.13.0+dfsg-4 resulted in that '/usr/share/doc/libplplot12/examples' is not deleted: Preparing to unpack .../5-libplplot-dev_5.13.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libplplot-dev (5.13.0+dfsg-4) over (5.10.0+dfsg2-0.4+b3) ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/doc/libplplot12/examples': Directory not empty and that '/usr/share/doc/libplplot-dev' is still a symlink: $ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/libplplot-dev lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 17 2016 /usr/share/doc/libplplot-dev -> libplplot12 and that 'changelog.Debian.gz', 'changelog.gz' and 'copyright' are missing in /usr/share/doc/libplplot-dev: $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/libplplot-dev/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 12:32 examples Regards, Jun MO -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libplplot-dev depends on: ii libfreetype6-dev 2.8-0.2 ii libltdl-dev [libltdl3-dev] 2.4.6-2 ii libplplot15 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libplplotcxx13 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libplplotfortran0 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libplplotqt2 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libplplotwxwidgets1 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libqhull-dev 2015.2-2 ii libqsastime-dev 5.13.0+dfsg-4 ii libshp-dev 1.4.1-1 Versions of packages libplplot-dev recommends: ii cmake 3.9.3-1 pn libplplot-d <none> ii libplplot-lua 5.13.0+dfsg-4 pn libplplot-ocaml <none> ii pkg-config 0.29-4+b1 Versions of packages libplplot-dev suggests: pn plplot-doc <none> -- debconf-show failed