Bug#1134357: Warnings upon purge

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:48:34 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.openoffice
Message-ID <871pgbwo65.7.fsf__15745.8028102823$1776574764$gmane$org@jidanni.org>
Package: libreoffice-common
Version: 4:26.2.2.2-3
If you do

# aptitude install libreoffice libreoffice-help-en-us
# aptitude purge libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice

You will see:

Removing libreoffice-common (4:26.2.2.2-3) ...
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/program/': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory
Purging configuration files for libreoffice-common (4:26.2.2.2-3) ...
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/config': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share': No such file or directory

Harmless but bad.