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

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

[ CCing man-db as Colin is probably the best person to get feedback
  from on this. ]

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:22:40 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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.

Ignoring /var/cache/man/ seems the most reasonable course of action to
me. The man-db package is the one handling those databases, it just
seems logical to me that it should be the one in charge of removing it
when purged.

regards,
guillem