Hi Andreas, thanks for the bug report; I will fix the cleanup issues.
About the size estimate: the package reports the installed size in the "Installed-Size" field din DEBIAN/control. This information should be displayed by the package manager. Why should it be included in the description as well?
Best regards Ole On 10.11.2015 14:18, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
Package: astrometry-data-2mass-03 Version: 1.0 Severity: serious astrometry-data-2mass-03.prerm sets STEP=02 and therefore cleans up the wrong files ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/astrometry-data-2mass-03.prerm:STEP=02 BTW, each package upgrade/reinstallation will delete the downloaded files and redownload them again - is that intentional? Otherwise the prerm actions should be guarded with if [ "$1" = "remove" ] ... to skip "upgrade"s. Oh, and it would be great if the description gives a rough estimate how much space is needed for the downloaded files. Andreas PS: I'm not interested in these packages at all, just investigating why my piuparts instance has problems testing them ...
