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Re: [Piuparts-devel] Unclear failure for asclock (left over files in /var)



Hi Guillem, Collin,

On Sonntag, 29. November 2009, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Ignoring /var/cache/man/ seems the most reasonable course of action to
> > me. The man-db package is the one handling those databases, it just
> > seems logical to me that it should be the one in charge of removing it
> > when purged.
>
> It makes sense for mandb to observe that a hierarchy of manual pages has
> gone away entirely (e.g. no more /usr/share/man/pt) and remove the
> corresponding database. Could somebody file a bug on man-db for this, or
> reassign/clone an existing bug? I wasn't sure if there was already a bug
> report for this so I haven't filed one myself.
>
> Ignoring /var/cache/man seems fairly harmless in the meantime.

Thanks for your feedback, I'll make piuparts ignore /var/cache/man now.


cheers,
	Holger

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