[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#656035: arb: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: arb
Version: 5.3-2
Severity: normal
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on
the system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8 (or 10.8):

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

0m26.8s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks:
  /usr/lib/arb/lib/arb_tcp.dat -> /etc/arb/arb_tcp.dat

0m28.1s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
  /usr/lib/arb	 owned by: arb, libarb, arb-common
  /usr/lib/arb/lib	 owned by: libarb, arb-common
  /usr/lib/arb/lib/arb_tcp.dat	 not owned

That link should be either shipped in the package so that it gets
removed automatically by dpkg (works only if the link is static), or if
it needs to be created by a maintainer script, the postrm needs to
remove it.

Also earlier while the package was installed, it contained a few broken
symlinks:

0m23.2s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks:
  /usr/lib/arb/bin/clustalw -> ../../../bin/clustalw
  /usr/lib/arb/bin/protml -> ../../../bin/protml
  /usr/lib/arb/lib/inputMasks/format.readme -> ../help/input_mask_format.hlp

(Since Recommends are not installed during the test, these broken links
may be OK.)


cheers,

Andreas
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