Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > There is discussion about handling system users > (http://bugs.debian.org/621833) and consensus seems to be to keep system > users on package remove/purge to avoid reuse of the uid, but lock them > (yet unspecified how to do this).

Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-04 17:20, Michael Meskes wrote: >> I'm talking about the package that is responsible for that file and >> needs to clean this up on remove/purge. > > Well the directory is the home directory of the user created in bucardo's > postinst. Removing that directory would leave a broken user a

Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-03-04 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 03:21:19PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Do you think about file ownership/permissions as in chown/chgrp/chmod? Yes. > I'm talking about the package that is responsible for that file and > needs to clean this up on remove/purge. Well the directory is the home directory

Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-04 14:37, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:40:15PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> 0m24.6s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: >> /var/lib/bucardonot owned > > Who owns it? Do you think about file ownership/permissions as in chown/chgrp/chmod?

Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-03-04 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:40:15PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 0m24.6s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > /var/lib/bucardo not owned Who owns it? I have yet to find a way to reproduce the problem. It works well on all my tests. This directory is generated and not touch

Bug#656465: bucardo: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8)

2012-01-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: bucardo Version: 4.4.8-1 Severity: important User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, 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-