does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Hi, while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it wasnt there before installing+purging the package. See http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/fail/slashem-common_0.0.7E7F3-1.3.log (at the end..) http:/

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Holger Levsen writes: > while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by > piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it > wasnt there before installing+purging the package. > > See http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/fail/slashem-common_0.0.7E7F3-1.3.lo

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > >> while testing the archive with piuparts I found a failure reported by >> piuparts, that after purge /var/games existed on the system while it >> wasnt there before installing+purging the package. >> >> See http://piuparts

Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)

Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-04-06 19:59 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm curious why it wasn't removed. /var/games is normally shipped in >> each of the packages that provides files in /var/games, so dpkg would >> normally remove it automatically once the last game was removed from >> the sy

Re: "Team uploads"

Le Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:51:54AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > There still should be some humans > in Maintainer/Uploaders who are taking primary responsibility for the > package, but I think other team members should be able to do QA-style > fixes and transition uploads without using NMU ve