On 2012-07-20 11:34, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andreas Beckmann <deb...@abeckmann.de> [2012.07.20.0946 +0200]: >> 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 (or 10.8): >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails > > The files you are talking about contain user mailboxes. They are > purposely owned by "root:vmm", and the vmm group is not removed in > purge, as is standard practice. So they are really "owned" actually.
unowned as in "dpkg does not know a package owning this file", not file ownership that can be changed with chown ... > I would feel very uneasy removing these data on purge. There are > plenty of packages that rightfully should not remove their data on > purge, don't you think? there are not that many that have a piuparts ignore entry for this reason ... and some have a debconf question about this (defaulting to "do not remove", but allowing preseeding), e.g. mysql, cyrus, ... But if you can argue that that data is so extremely valuable ... we might add an ignore entry. Andreas PS: I have no clue what vmm does (besides showing up with a piuparts error), I did not even read the short description -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
