Bug#454219: Doesn't purge all files after piuparts Install+Upgrade+Purge test

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 1:7.3+7
> Severity: important
> User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts-stable-upgrade piuparts-stable-upgrade-20071130
>
> Hi!
>
> I have been analyzing packages for the piuparts test, and have
> observed that ~700 packages fail the piuparts because xbase-clients
> doesn't purge all the files it installs.
>
> The gzipped log of the piuparts run for xbase-clients is
> attached. The problem is that the process
>
> Install Stable xbase-clients -> upgrade to sid -> purge
>
> lets /etc/X11/app-defaults/* remain
> unremoved. In particular, the files in question which are not removed
> seemed to be:
>
>   /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight
>   /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap
>   /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
>   /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-nocase
>   /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xgc
>   

For the record, these files are related to some programs that were in
xbase-clients
but have been dropped when splitting xbase-clients into x11-apps,
x11-utils, ...

Brice