[Piuparts-devel] Bug#830527: Bug#830527: piuparts should ignore /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz in purge test

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 07:26:19AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >     2m6.4s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
> >       /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz       not owned
>  
> I don't see this in my sid schroot. When+why does apt create it?

I'm not sure when and why it gets created, but try building and then
testing the source package cluster-gesture_0.0.2.1-7.1, currently in the
deferred upload queue, or possibly in the archive by the time you read
this.

> > This file can be created by the latest version of apt, and it
> > shouldn't be considered a purge failure since it's unrelated to the
> > package being tested.
> 
> and then I wonder why this shouldn't be a cleaned up by apt itself…

Yeah.  I wasn't sure whether to report this bug against piuparts or apt.
However, doesn't piuparts ignore changes to other dpkg and apt log files
already, like the main dpkg status file?

-- 
Sean Whitton