Package: infinoted Version: 0.5.2-6 Severity: serious Tags: patch User: debian...@lists.debian.org 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. This was observed on upgrades from squeeze to wheezy. Since infinoted has stopped using alternatives and instead it ships the /usr/bin/infinoted symlink, there needs to be Breaks: against all packages that were still using alternatives to handle infinoted. Furthermore the infinoted-0.4/squeeze package does not clean up the alternative on removal (it tries to remove a infinoted-0.3 alternative instead), so this should be handled by infinoted/wheezy, too. >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m56.6s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system: /etc/alternatives/infinoted -> /usr/bin/infinoted-0.4 not owned /usr/bin/infinoted -> /etc/alternatives/infinoted owned by: infinoted Filing this as serious as mixing shipped symlinks and alternatives can easily break things, as seen above: /usr/bin/infinoted still points to infinoted-0.4 via the alternative instead of -0.5 as in the shipped symlink. I'll attach a patch once I got the bug number and intend to NMU libinfinity in a few days to get this fixed in wheezy. cheers, Andreas
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