On 10/15/15, 8:14 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: ifupdown2
> Version: 1.0~git20150917-1
> Severity: important
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> Hi,
>
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned
> directories on the system after purge, which is a violation of
> policy 6.8:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-removedetails
>
> Filing this as important as having a piuparts clean archive is a release
> goal since lenny.
>
> The maintainer scripts create (and later remove) a file in that
> directory. Manual directory removal may be not appropriate as this
> directory is shared between several packages.
>
> If the package would ship this as an empty directory, dpkg would take
> care of the creation and removal (if it's empty).
>
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
> 0m40.2s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
>   /etc/network/interfaces.d/   not owned
>
Thanks for the report.  I had tested purge and did not notice this. I will post 
a fix as soon as I can.

PS: Since this was my first bug, I missed this email earlier this week because 
of misconfiguration on an email filter. Should have better handle on this in 
the future.

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