[Pkg-golang-devel] Bug#784536: golang-go: leaves alternatives after purge: /usr/bin/{go, gofmt}

[Tianon Gravi]

On 6 May 2015 at 07:43, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on
> the system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8:

I actually noticed the piuparts error yesterday and uploaded 2:1.4.2-3
last night with a fix. :)

I mimicked the way I had handled this in the "hy" package, which in
turn I had learned from "vim".  I notice there are a number of
bike-sheds on the topic of where it's necessary to perform these
actions though (#45614, #71621, #582873), and even talk of a
"dh_alternatives" helper to make this less error-prone, which was my
first thought when I realized I'd forgotten to add the remove bits.
(ie, why isn't there a dh_alternatives to write this shell boilerplate
for me?)

♥,
- Tianon
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