Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Bugs 4641 and 5807 request that dpkg removes pre-existing .tmp-nest > files, rather than erroring out. I disagree, and I think the dpkg > developers would agree. Removing a directory w/o asking would be a > big bug, and a possible security problem.
I agree the solution these bugs give is wrong, but I think there is an underlying bug in dpkg-dev. The bug is that it creates the .tmp-nest directories, and if it's interrupted at the right time, it will leave them lying around. It should clean up the directories before exiting. -- see shy jo
