Bug#539389: 10.9.1 contains wrong sentence about postrm usage

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.2.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

10.9.1 The use of dpkg-statoverride states:

"The corresponding dpkg-statoverride --remove calls can then be made
unconditionally when the package is purged."

This is not true, because dpkg-statoverride fails, if no override
exists, causing the purge to fail as well.
Because the admin could remove an override the remove
call should not happen, if the override does not exist.
So it should be called somewhat like that:

if dpkg-statoverride --list $file >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 dpkg-statoverride --remove $i
done

Best Regards,
Patrick
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