Bug#677053: root-system-rootd: unowned directory after purge: /var/spool/rootd/{, pub/}

[Lifeng Sun]

Hi,

Thanks for report. It will be fixed in the next upload.


cheers,
Lifeng

On 13:01 Mon 06/11/12 Jun     , Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: root-system-rootd
> Version: 5.34.00~rc1-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned
> directories on the system after purge, which is a violation of
> policy 6.8:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails
> 
> Filing this as important as having a piuparts clean archive is a release
> goal since lenny.
> 
> The maintainer scripts create (and later remove) a file in that
> directory. Manual directory removal may be not appropriate as this
> directory is shared between several packages.
> 
> If the package would ship this as an empty directory, dpkg would take
> care of the creation and removal (if it's empty).
> 
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
> 0m36.7s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
>   /var/spool/rootd/	 not owned
>   /var/spool/rootd/pub/	 not owned
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Andreas


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