Package: libmilter-dev
Version: 8.14.4-2.1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts replaces-without-breaks

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package causes
removal of files that also belong to another package.

libmilter-dev.preinst sets up /usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev -> sendmail
but ships the following files there, overwriting files from the sendmail
package:

/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/buildinfo.gz
/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libmilter-dev/README.gz

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

0m40.1s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system:
  /usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1 -> sendmail      owned by: libmilter1.0.1

0m40.1s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared:
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/       not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/NEWS.Debian.gz         not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.gz      not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/buildinfo.gz   not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/changelog.Debian.gz    not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/changelog.gz   not owned
  /usr/share/doc/sendmail/copyright      not owned

libmilter1.0.1 ships the following files:
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-05-09 08:47 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-05-09 08:48 ./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7216 2012-05-09 08:46 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4529 2012-05-09 08:46 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root       964 2012-05-09 08:46 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2319 2012-05-09 08:48 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/buildinfo.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root    188634 2009-12-23 04:43 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7733 2009-04-10 17:49 
./usr/share/doc/libmilter1.0.1/README.gz
so the symlink bug seems to exist there, too

cheers,

Andreas

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