[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#681960: Bug#681960: closed by Scott Kitterman <scott at kitterman.com> (Bug#681960: fixed in clamav 0.97.5+dfsg-4)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-07-19 14:30, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Right.  Good point.  Does this mean I don't need to worry about leaving an 
> empty /var/run/clamav on the system?
That should be OK.

>  All of clamav-freshclam, clamav-daemon, 
> and clamav-milter write files in that directory at some point and so I think my 
> choices are to leave the directory on purge and let the next boot clear it up 

better this ^

> or have one of the above (or perhaps clamav-base) remove it on purge and then 

than this ^

> I've got another case of "removes directories that were installed by another 
> package" for /var/run/clamav.

/var/run and /run are on the piuparts ignore list :-)

Of course the sequence install, purge, install may not fail because
/var/run/clamav already exists

Andreas