[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1036399: piuparts: false positives for unowned files left after purge

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <bremner at debian.org> writes:

> Package: piuparts
> Version: 1.1.7
> Severity: normal
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> The following output from "piuparts -t /var/tmp --apt emacs" (also on piuparts.debian.org) looks suss to me:
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> 0m43.8s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system:
>   /root/.ssh/	 not owned
>   /var/cache/private/	 not owned
>   /var/lib/private/	 not owned
>   /var/lib/systemd/coredump/	 not owned
>   /var/lib/systemd/pstore/	 not owned
>   /var/log/private/	 not owned

I just verified that something creates /root/.ssh when I run "apt
install --no-install-recommends systemd" in a clean chroot.  So that
part is a bug in some other package (presumably systemd or a
dependency), not piuparts.