Package: gopher
Version: 3.0.17.2
Severity: minor

Package gopher is shipping empty directories:

-> % dpkg -c ./gopher_3.0.17.2_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./etc/gopher/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2458 2019-10-04 01:27 ./etc/gopher.hlp
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3111 2019-10-04 01:27 ./etc/gopher.rc
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1808 2019-10-04 01:27 ./etc/gopherremote.rc
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    146816 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/bin/gopher
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     56048 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/bin/gophfilt
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/sbin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/doc/gopher/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2636 2008-03-02 16:38 ./usr/share/doc/gopher/FAQ
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3438 2008-03-02 16:38
./usr/share/doc/gopher/INSTALL.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2348 2008-03-02 16:38
./usr/share/doc/gopher/PLATFORMS
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2606 2008-03-02 16:38 ./usr/share/doc/gopher/README
-rw-r--r-- root/root       718 2008-03-02 16:38 ./usr/share/doc/gopher/TODO
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5687 2019-10-04 01:27
./usr/share/doc/gopher/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     15020 2008-03-02 16:38
./usr/share/doc/gopher/client.changes.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3941 2008-03-02 16:38
./usr/share/doc/gopher/clientlogging.vms.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1326 2019-10-04 00:16
./usr/share/doc/gopher/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1832 2008-03-02 16:38
./usr/share/doc/gopher/object.changes
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3139 2019-10-04 01:27
./usr/share/man/man1/gopher.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1642 2019-10-04 01:27
./usr/share/man/man1/gophfilt.1.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/man/man5/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1350 2019-10-04 01:27
./usr/share/man/man5/gopherrc.5.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-04 01:27 ./usr/share/man/man8/


At least we do not ./usr/share/man/man8/ and ./usr/sbin/ at this time. A sane
approach is to drop debian/*.dirs and let debhelper utilities like dh_install
to automatically handle directory creation.

Best,
Boyuan Ynag

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