[Piuparts-devel] Unclear failure for asclock (left over files in /var)

[Holger Levsen]

[resent, added cc: to debian-policy@, feedback welcome on how piuparts should 
treat certain left over files after purging a package..]

Hi Helge,

thank you for bringing up this issue here.

On Mittwoch, 25. November 2009, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Package purging left files on system:
>   /var/cache/man/pt      not owned
>   /var/cache/man/pt/cat1         not owned
[...]
> Judging from this analyis, this looks like a false positive...

I think it is too, but I'm not entirely sure, so I would appreciate a comment 
from someone more familar with "man" then I am, that's why I've added d-qa@ 
to cc:

So far, piuparts has been ignoring left over files with the following 
patterns:

            "/var/cache/man/(.*)/index.db",
            "/var/cache/man/index.db",

(obviously, there are more :)

Looking at the failed piuparts logs, I see there are more with left over files 
in /var/cache/man/.*/cat? - should piuparts just ignore /var/cache/man? 
Comments welcome.


regards,
	Holger

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