[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#681960: clamav-freshclam: removes directories that were installed by another package: /var/{lib, log}/clamav/

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Wed Jul 18 08:30:57 UTC 2012


Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.97.5+dfsg-3
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package removes files that
were installed by another package.
The removed files were already present before the package was installed,
they may have been shipped or created by a dependency.

This could be a violation of policy 10.7.4 ("Sharing configuration
files"), see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.4
or policy chapter 6 ("Package maintainer scripts..."), see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html
or policy 7.6 ("Overwriting files..."), see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

If a directory is used by several packages, all should ship it as part
of the package (possibly empty, using $package.dirs to create it), and
no package should mkdir/rmdir it in the maintainer scripts as dpkg will
take care of this.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

0m27.3s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared:
  /var/lib/clamav/	 owned by: clamav-freshclam, clamav-base
  /var/log/clamav/	 owned by: clamav-base


cheers,

Andreas
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