Hi Lars!

Lars Wirzenius [2006-03-05 16:32 +0200]:
> This is a fun one. :)
> 
> When testing pmount with piuparts, I get the following error:
> 
> 0m8.0s ERROR: After purging files have disappeared:
>   /media
>     owned by: pmount
> 
> As it happens, /media is created by base-files in its postinst. It is
> not known to dpkg. pmount, however, includes it in its .deb file,
> causing dpkg to assume that pmount is the owner. Thus, when dpkg is
> removing pmount, it also removed /media.

Thanks for the report. Nice to see piuparts scrutinizing the archive.
:)

When I added these /media bits to pmount, base-files did not yet
create it.

> Would it be acceptable to you to just assume that /media exists, given
> that it is created by base-files in sarge already? Or perhaps depend on
> a version of base-files that creates /media?

The latter sounds reasonable. Just to be sure, I could also add an
'mkdir -p' call to the postinst.

Thanks,

Martin

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