On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:30:57 AM Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: clamav-freshclam
> Version: 0.97.5+dfsg-3
> Severity: serious
> User: debian...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> Hi,
>
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package removes files that
> were installed by another package.
> The removed files were already present before the package was installed,
> they may have been shipped or created by a dependency.
>
> This could be a violation of policy 10.7.4 ("Sharing configuration
> files"), see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.4
> or policy chapter 6 ("Package maintainer scripts..."), see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html
> or policy 7.6 ("Overwriting files..."), see
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
>
> If a directory is used by several packages, all should ship it as part
> of the package (possibly empty, using $package.dirs to create it), and
> no package should mkdir/rmdir it in the maintainer scripts as dpkg will
> take care of this.Confirmed both the problem and the suggested fix. Will take care of this soon. Scott K
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