[Pkg-salt-team] Uploaded repository - some issues remain

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joe Healy <joehealy at gmail.com> [2013.04.07.0644 +0200]:
> >   3.  ensure through postinst that no such file is left on the
> >   systems after the install.
> 
> Given the warning at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#maintscripts,
> should we ignore the error completely and wait for upstream to fix
> it in the next release?
> 
> Or should we push on and learn (will take a few days though)?

You should ignore the warning.

However, removing the file(s) in postinst would mean that they are
still in the source package. I don't think that is necessary and
I may have been wrong with my suggestion.

Assuming you use debhelper 7 and a very short debian/rules file, you
should be able to inject a hook post-install. See the dh(1) manpage,
e.g.

  override_dh_install:
    dh_install
    rm -r debian/tmp/path/to/.DS_store

Depending on your source package format, this will cause a diff to
be auto-generated on every package build, which is okay for now.
Don't use -f as you want this to fail (so you can remove it) once
the file no longer exists.

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