Bug#964159: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: Makes packages using dh_installsystemduser(1) fail piuparts

[Guilhem Moulin]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2020 at 21:05:26 +0200, guilhem at debian.org wrote:
> `postrm purge` removes these but not the parents directories, hence causes
> `piuparts -d sid --no-upgrade-test` to fail with
> 
> ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
>  /etc/systemd/user/         not owned
>  /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-user-helper-masked/   not owned

Prominent examples appear to be gpg-agent and dirmngr:

    https://piuparts.debian.org/sid-strict/fail/gpg-agent_2.2.20-1.log
    https://piuparts.debian.org/sid-strict/fail/dirmngr_2.2.20-1.log

qa.d.o claims it turns blocks piuparts checks for their ~1k reverse
dependencies.

-- 
Guilhem.
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