On 05/03/2021 16.17, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Why don't you ship the three empty directories in the package?

lintian considers that an error.

which can be overridden if you intentionally want to ship empty directories as in this case

On 05/03/2021 17.56, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> According to https://piuparts.debian.org/sid-strict/source/m/musescore2.html
> the musescore-common package succeeds piuparts, too… huh… weird.

triggered by a test of multimedia-musiciantools with --install-recommends (in my local piuparts instance) which installs
fluid-soundfont-gm: /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

On 05/03/2021 16.24, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Interesting, because this never happened for me, and I cannot
> easily reproduce it either. In a fresh cowbuilder:

try with fluid-soundfont-gm

install fluid-soundfont-gm musescore-common
remove fluid-soundfont-gm
remove musescore-common

Which is another point for *shipping* the directories to let dpkg do the refcounting, otherwise the manually created directory gets removed by dpkg removing a different package.

Andreas

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