Superfluous empty directory /usr/share/games/fortune in package

[Mario Schwalbe]

Binary package hint: fortunes-ubuntu-server

The karmic package of fortunes-ubuntu-server contains an empty directory /usr/share/games/fortune, which shoudn't be there.

$ ls -ld /usr/share/games/fortune*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-26 21:35 /usr/share/games/fortune
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 2010-02-16 23:59 /usr/share/games/fortunes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-09 12:56 /usr/share/games/fortunes-de

$ ls -l /usr/share/games/fortune
total 0K

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/games/fortune
fortunes-ubuntu-server: /usr/share/games/fortune

$ apt-cache policy fortunes-ubuntu-server
fortunes-ubuntu-server:
  Installed: 0.2
  Candidate: 0.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I've just checked with fortunes-ubuntu-server version 0.3 [1] on Ubuntu 12.04 and version 0.4 [2] on Ubuntu 14.04. I wonder whether this may have been resolved when the debian/dirs file was removed as part of the 0.3 release, see [3] for details.

Since the empty directory no longer appears, I'm marking this as fixed.

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/all/fortunes-ubuntu-server/filelist
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/fortunes-ubuntu-server/filelist
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/fortunes-ubuntu-server/wily/revision/2