[Pkg-clamav-devel] [holger at layer-acht.org: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge]

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi fellow developers,

clamav is affected by this problem with the following files:

0m26.4s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
  /etc/clamav  owned by: clamav-base
  /etc/clamav/clamd.conf   not owned
  /var/lib/clamav  owned by: clamav-base
  /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd  not owned
  /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd   not owned

Maybe I'll find the time to investigate this more detail, just don't know for
sure and wanted to share what I had digged up anyway.

Best,
Michael

----- Forwarded message from Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> -----

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:14:12 +0200
From: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
Subject: piuparts-MBF: owned and unowned files after purge

Hi,

I'd like to file bugs with the severity "important" against all packages 
leaving owned and unowned files after purge. 

Reasoning: "a piuparts clean archive" is a release-goal for squeeze (and was 
for lenny) and this is prohibited per debian-policy. As the impact of the 
bugs ain't that high (except that we break our quality promise with it and 
blatantly violate policy), I think "important" is the right severity.

http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/owned_files_after_purge_error.html shows which 
packages need to remove owned files after purge, see 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3

http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/unowned_files_after_purge_error.html shows
packages with unowned files after purge (violating policy 6.8) see 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails

I am currently _not_ proposing filing bugs against packages with owned files 
after purge, which belong to more than one package (those which you can see 
at http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/owned_files_by_many_packages_error.html) 
because #454694 needs to be fixed in dpkg first.

204 packages are affected by this, a ddlist of the affected packages is below.


regards,
	Holger


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