dpkg-reconfigure deletes config directory

[Rita Bylsma]

Binary package hint: glassfishv2

This bug very likely is the cause of bug 239474.

The quickstart documentation said to use the passwords I gave during installation, but during the Ubuntu installation no passwords were asked. It was probably not the Ubuntu installation that was meant, however, at that time I ran `dpkg-reconfigure glassfishv2' to see what was going on during Ubuntu installation. Much later during my work of getting glassfishv2 running, I found that files mentioned in some installation guides were not there. They were files from the glassfishv2/config directory. `dpkg -L glassfishv2' showed that they should be there.

Then I wanted to deinstall glassfishv2, but this did not work. The cause was that glassfishv2/config/install/stop.sh was missing. I recreated the config/install directory and created a stop.sh that only contained `ls'. After this, deinstallation succeeded.

Then I installed glassfishv2 again and found that the config directory was there. I remembered doing dpkg-reconfigure, did it again, and the config directory was gone again. After reinstallation it was back again.

Ubuntu 8.04.1
glassfishv2 2.0.1-0ubuntu5