Bug#564457: unowned files in /usr/local after purge (policy 6.8)

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

On 09.01.10 Hilmar Preuße (hille42@web.de) wrote:

Hi, 

Not posting to submitter, just to the bug. 

> That dir was created by tex-common and is expected to be gone when it
> is purged. Does that help you?
> 
In the postrm of tex-common I found the following notice:

    # try to remove /usr/local/share/texmf if it is empty
    # people should normally not have TEXMFLOCAL ls-R files
    # unless they called mktexlsr manually, in which case this is fine
    # maintainer scripts should call mktexlsr with a list of trees so
    # no /u/l/s/texmf/ls-R is created
    #rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/dev/null || true
    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/share/texmf/ 2>/dev/null || true

I have the file /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R, hence the command above
won't remove /usr/local/share/texmf/ . When looking at the time
stamp:

hille@sid:~ $ stat /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 
<snip>
Access: 2010-01-10 13:21:31.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2010-01-10 13:21:25.000000000 +0100
Change: 2010-01-10 13:21:25.000000000 +0100

it was modified/created during de-installation of something:

sid:~# less /var/log/dpkg.log
2010-01-10 13:21:18 status half-installed latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status half-installed latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 purge latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status config-files latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp 1.21
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status not-installed latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp <none>
2010-01-10 13:21:20 trigproc fontconfig 2.8.0-2 2.8.0-2
2010-01-10 13:21:20 status half-configured fontconfig 2.8.0-2
2010-01-10 13:21:22 status installed fontconfig 2.8.0-2
2010-01-10 13:21:22 trigproc tex-common 2.05 2.05
2010-01-10 13:21:22 status half-configured tex-common 2.05
2010-01-10 13:22:17 status installed tex-common 2.05

probably by tex-common itself.

Just my 2 cents.

H.
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