Package: skytools3,skytools3-walmgr Version: 3.1.3-1 Severity: important User: [email protected] 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: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails The leftover files are actually alternatives that were installed by the package but have not been properly removed. While there is ongoing discussion how to remove alternatives correctly (see http://bugs.debian.org/71621 for details) the following strategy should work for regular cases: * 'postinst configure' always installs the alternative * 'prerm remove' removes the alternative * 'postrm remove' and 'postrm disappear' remove the alternative In all other cases a maintainer script is invoked (e.g. upgrade, deconfigure) the alternatives are not modified to preserve user configuration. Removing the alternative in 'prerm remove' avoids having a dangling link once the actual file gets removed, but 'prerm remove' is not called in all cases (e.g. unpacked but not configured packages or disappearing packages) so the postrm must remove the alternative again (update-alternatives gracefully handles removal of non-existing alternatives). Note that the arguments for adding and removing alternatives differ, for removal it's 'update-alternatives --remove <name> <path>'. Filing this as important as having a piuparts clean archive is a release goal since lenny. >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m33.0s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: /usr/share/man/man1/queue_splitter.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter.1 /usr/share/man/man1/queue_mover.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/queue_mover.1 /usr/share/man/man1/scriptmgr.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr.1 /usr/share/man/man1/londiste.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/londiste.1 /usr/bin/queue_splitter -> /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter /usr/bin/queue_mover -> /etc/alternatives/queue_mover /usr/bin/scriptmgr -> /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr /usr/bin/londiste -> /etc/alternatives/londiste /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/queue_splitter3.1.gz /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter -> /usr/bin/queue_splitter3 /etc/alternatives/queue_mover.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/queue_mover3.1.gz /etc/alternatives/queue_mover -> /usr/bin/queue_mover3 /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/scriptmgr3.1.gz /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr -> /usr/bin/scriptmgr3 /etc/alternatives/londiste.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/londiste3.1.gz /etc/alternatives/londiste -> /usr/bin/londiste3 0m34.7s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: /etc/alternatives/londiste -> /usr/bin/londiste3 not owned /etc/alternatives/londiste.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/londiste3.1.gz not owned /etc/alternatives/queue_mover -> /usr/bin/queue_mover3 not owned /etc/alternatives/queue_mover.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/queue_mover3.1.gz not owned /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter -> /usr/bin/queue_splitter3 not owned /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/queue_splitter3.1.gz not owned /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr -> /usr/bin/scriptmgr3 not owned /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/scriptmgr3.1.gz not owned /usr/bin/londiste -> /etc/alternatives/londiste not owned /usr/bin/queue_mover -> /etc/alternatives/queue_mover not owned /usr/bin/queue_splitter -> /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter not owned /usr/bin/scriptmgr -> /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr not owned /usr/share/man/man1/londiste.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/londiste.1 not owned /usr/share/man/man1/queue_mover.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/queue_mover.1 not owned /usr/share/man/man1/queue_splitter.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/queue_splitter.1 not owned /usr/share/man/man1/scriptmgr.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/scriptmgr.1 not owned /var/log/skytools/ not owned 0m46.4s ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: /usr/share/man/man1/walmgr.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/walmgr.1 /usr/bin/walmgr -> /etc/alternatives/walmgr /etc/alternatives/walmgr.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/walmgr3.1.gz /etc/alternatives/walmgr -> /usr/bin/walmgr3 0m48.3s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: /etc/alternatives/walmgr -> /usr/bin/walmgr3 not owned /etc/alternatives/walmgr.1 -> /usr/share/man/man1/walmgr3.1.gz not owned /usr/bin/walmgr -> /etc/alternatives/walmgr not owned /usr/share/man/man1/walmgr.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/walmgr.1 not owned Note that postrm purge should also get rid of /var/log/skytools/ cheers, Andreas
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