Hi! [ CCing man-db as Colin is probably the best person to get feedback from on this. ]
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 10:22:40 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 25. November 2009, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Package purging left files on system: > > /var/cache/man/pt not owned > > /var/cache/man/pt/cat1 not owned > [...] > > Judging from this analyis, this looks like a false positive... > > I think it is too, but I'm not entirely sure, so I would appreciate a comment > from someone more familar with "man" then I am, that's why I've added d-qa@ > to cc: > > So far, piuparts has been ignoring left over files with the following > patterns: > > "/var/cache/man/(.*)/index.db", > "/var/cache/man/index.db", > > (obviously, there are more :) > > Looking at the failed piuparts logs, I see there are more with left over > files > in /var/cache/man/.*/cat? - should piuparts just ignore /var/cache/man? > Comments welcome. Ignoring /var/cache/man/ seems the most reasonable course of action to me. The man-db package is the one handling those databases, it just seems logical to me that it should be the one in charge of removing it when purged. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
